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Dr Fred Pfeffer

Position Lecturer

 
Area   School of Life and Environmental Sciences

 
Email   fred.pfeffer@deakin.edu.au

 
Phone   +61 3 522 71439

 
Campus   Geelong

 
     
Career
  1994 BSc (Deakin, majoring in maths and chemistry), 1996 BSc hons (Deakin),
2001 PhD (Deakin). 
2001–2004 Contract lectureship and postdoctoral fellow (Trinity College Dublin).
2004 Lectureship (Deakin).

Research Interests   Anion recognition and sensing
Synthesis of new antibiotics
Antidiabetic agents targeting PPAR receptors
Conducting polymers

Key Publications   L. D. Van Vliet, T. Ellis, P. J. Foley, L. Liu, F. M. Pfeffer, R. A. Russell, R. N. Warrener, F. Hollfelder and M. J. Waring
Molecular Recognition of DNA by Rigid [n]-Polynorbornane-Derived Bifunctional Intercalators: Synthesis and Evaluation of their Binding Properties. Journal of Medicinal Chemistry, 50, 2326–2340 (2007).

T. Gunnlaugsson, M. Glynn, G. M. Tocci (nee Hussey), P. E. Kruger and F. M. Pfeffer
Anion recognition and sensing in organic and aqueous media using luminescent and colorimetric sensors.
Coordination Chemistry Reviews, 250(23-24), 3094-3117 (2006).
8.815, 50

F. M. Pfeffer, T. Gunnlaugsson, P. Jensen and P. E. Kruger
Anion recognition using preorganized thiourea functionalized [3]polynorbornane receptors.
Organic Letters, 7(24): 5357-5360 (2005)

F. M. Pfeffer and R. A. Russell
Strategies and methods for the attachment of amino acids and peptides to chiral [n]polynorbornane templates
Organic and Biomolecular Chemistry, 1, 1845 (2003)

Current Research Group
  Adam Lowe
Dan Priebbenow
Lauren Rufus
Megan Thornton
Rosalind Stok
Jesse Parkin-Gibbs
Nishan Ahmed

Research Link   View Deakin Associated Research Data