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  1. Electronic and Steric Effects in Rollover C–H Bond Activation

    Article • Organometallics, March 2015, American Chemical Society (ACS)

    Dr Jonathan P Rourke

  2. Intramolecular transcyclometallation: the exchange of an aryl–Pt bond for an alkyl–Pt bond via an agostic intermediate

    Article • Chemical Communications, January 2015, Royal Society of Chemistry

    Dr Jonathan P Rourke

  3. Sulfur-Functionalized Graphene Oxide by Epoxide Ring-Opening

    Article • Angewandte Chemie, June 2014, Wiley

    Dr Jonathan P Rourke

  4. Sulfur-Functionalized Graphene Oxide by Epoxide Ring-Opening

    Article • Angewandte Chemie International Edition, June 2014, Wiley

    Dr Jonathan P Rourke

  5. Rollover‐Assisted C(sp2)C(sp3) Bond Formation

    Article • Chemistry - A European Journal, March 2014, Wiley

    Professor Maria Agostina Cinellu, Dr Jonathan P Rourke

  6. Graphene oxide and base-washed graphene oxide as reinforcements in PMMA nanocomposites

    Article • Composites Science and Technology, November 2013, Elsevier

    Dr Jonathan P Rourke

  7. Oxidative Addition of MeI to a Rollover Complex of Platinum(II): Isolation of the Kinetic Product

    Article • Organometallics, June 2013, American Chemical Society (ACS)

    Dr Jonathan P Rourke

  8. Identifying the fluorescence of graphene oxide

    Article • Journal of Materials Chemistry C, January 2013, Royal Society of Chemistry

    Dr Jonathan P Rourke

  9. Relieving Steric Strain at Octahedral Platinum(IV): Isomerization and Reductive Coupling of Alkyl and Aryl Chlorides

    Article • Organometallics, October 2012, American Chemical Society (ACS)

    Dr Jonathan P Rourke

  10. Heterobimetallic Rollover Derivatives

    Article • Organometallics, March 2012, American Chemical Society (ACS)

    Professor Maria Agostina Cinellu, Dr Jonathan P Rourke

  11. Concerted reductive coupling of an alkyl chloride at Pt(iv)

    Article • Chemical Communications, January 2012, Royal Society of Chemistry

    Dr Jonathan P Rourke

  12. Palladium(II) Agostic Complex: Exchange of Aryl–Pd and Alkyl–Pd Bonds

    Article • Organometallics, November 2011, American Chemical Society (ACS)

    Dr Jonathan P Rourke

  13. Physical Vapor Deposition of Metal Nanoparticles on Chemically Modified Graphene: Observations on Metal-Graphene Interactions

    Article • Small, September 2011, Wiley

    Dr Jonathan P Rourke

  14. Reactions of a Platinum(II) Agostic Complex: Decyclometalation, Dicyclometalation, and Solvent-Switchable Formation of a Rollover Complex

    Article • Organometallics, July 2011, American Chemical Society (ACS)

    Dr Jonathan P Rourke

  15. The Real Graphene Oxide Revealed: Stripping the Oxidative Debris from the Graphene-like Sheets

    Article • Angewandte Chemie International Edition, February 2011, Wiley

    Dr Jonathan P Rourke

  16. The Real Graphene Oxide Revealed: Stripping the Oxidative Debris from the Graphene-like Sheets

    Article • Angewandte Chemie, February 2011, Wiley

    Dr Jonathan P Rourke

  17. Platinum(iv) centres with agostic interactions from either sp2 or sp3 C–H bonds

    Article • Dalton Transactions, January 2011, Royal Society of Chemistry

    Dr Jonathan P Rourke

  18. On the structure and topography of free-standing chemically modified graphene

    Article • New Journal of Physics, December 2010, Institute of Physics Publishing

    Dr Jonathan P Rourke

  19. ChemInform Abstract: Metallomesogens: Organometallic and Coordination Complexes with Liquid Crystalline Properties

    Article • ChemInform, August 2010, Wiley

    Dr Jonathan P Rourke, Professor Francesco Paolo Fanizzi

  20. ChemInform Abstract: Synthesis and Properties of (.+-.)-trans-(η2-Alkene)(4-alkyloxy-4′- stilbazole)dichloroplatinum: A Remarkable Family of Low-Melting Metallomesogens.

    Article • ChemInform, August 2010, Wiley

    Dr Jonathan P Rourke, Professor Francesco Paolo Fanizzi

  21. Platinum(IV) DMSO Complexes: Synthesis, Isomerization, and Agostic Intermediates

    Article • Organometallics, April 2010, American Chemical Society (ACS)

    Dr Jonathan P Rourke

  22. Platinum(ii) N-heterocyclic carbene complexes: coordination and cyclometallation.

    Article • Dalton Transactions, January 2010, Royal Society of Chemistry

    Dr Jonathan P Rourke

  23. A Delicate Balance between sp 2 and sp 3 C−H Bond Activation: A Pt(II) Complex with a Dual Agostic Interaction

    Article • Journal of the American Chemical Society, October 2009, American Chemical Society (ACS)

    Dr Jonathan P Rourke

  24. Graphene Oxide: Structural Analysis and Application as a Highly Transparent Support for Electron Microscopy

    Article • ACS Nano, September 2009, American Chemical Society (ACS)

    Dr Jeremy Sloan, Dr Jonathan P Rourke

  25. Platinum(IV) Complexes: C−H Activation at Low Temperatures

    Article • Organometallics, November 2008, American Chemical Society (ACS)

    Dr Jonathan P Rourke

  26. Synthesis of Mixed NHC/L Platinum(II) Complexes:  Restricted Rotation of the NHC Group

    Article • Organometallics, December 2007, American Chemical Society (ACS)

    Dr Jonathan P Rourke

  27. Silver(I) N-heterocyclic carbene halide complexes: A new bonding motif

    Article • Journal of Organometallic Chemistry, October 2007, Elsevier

    Dr Jonathan P Rourke

  28. A delicate balance of complexation vs. activation of alkanes interacting with [Re(Cp)(CO)(PF 3 )] studied with NMR and time-resolved IR spectroscopy

    Article • Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, April 2007, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences

    Dr Jonathan P Rourke

  29. Cyclometallated platinum(ii) complexes: oxidation to, and C–H activation by, platinum(iv)

    Article • Dalton Transactions, January 2007, Royal Society of Chemistry

    Dr Jonathan P Rourke

  30. Density Functional Theoretical Studies of the Re−Xe Bonds in Re(Cp)(CO)(PF 3 )Xe and Re(Cp)(CO) 2 Xe

    Article • Organometallics, October 2006, American Chemical Society (ACS)

    Dr Jonathan P Rourke

  31. N-heterocyclic carbenes: Reaction to give anilines

    Article • Journal of Organometallic Chemistry, August 2006, Elsevier

    Dr Jonathan P Rourke

  32. Cyclopalladated acetate dimers: Crystal structures and VT-NMR

    Article • Journal of Organometallic Chemistry, March 2006, Elsevier

    Dr Jonathan P Rourke

  33. Carbene or zwitterion? Competition in organoplatinum complexes

    Article • Dalton Transactions, January 2006, Royal Society of Chemistry

    Dr Jonathan P Rourke

  34. Christoph Elschenbroich. Organometallics. Wiley-VCH, 2006, 3rd edn, 818 pp. ISBN 3-527-29390-6 (paperback)

    Article • Applied Organometallic Chemistry, January 2006, Wiley

    Dr Jonathan P Rourke

  35. Characterization of an organometallic xenon complex using NMR and IR spectroscopy

    Article • Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, January 2005, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences

    Dr Jonathan P Rourke

  36. [Cp2ZrMe(12-μ-Me-1-closo-CB11HMe10)]: a transition metal complex of a highly-methylated carborane anion

    Article • Chemical Communications, January 2003, Royal Society of Chemistry

    Dr Jonathan P Rourke

  37. Doubly cyclopalladated pyridazines: chiral liquid crystals

    Article • Journal of Organometallic Chemistry, February 2002, Elsevier

    Dr Jonathan P Rourke

  38. Mechanism of Formation of [(PMe3)3Rh(−C⋮C−R)2(H)] via C−H Oxidative Addition:  Isomerization, Alkyne Exchange, and Hydride Replacement

    Article • Organometallics, December 2001, American Chemical Society (ACS)

    Professor Todd B. Marder, Dr Jonathan P Rourke

  39. Doubly Cyclometalated Pyridazines:  Contrasting Behavior with Palladium and Platinum

    Article • Organometallics, October 2001, American Chemical Society (ACS)

    Dr Jonathan P Rourke

  40. Di-metallated platinum carbonyl complexes: platinum–platinum interactions in the solid state

    Article • Journal of the Chemical Society Dalton Transactions, January 2001, Royal Society of Chemistry

    Dr Jonathan P Rourke

  41. C−H Activation Induced by Water. Monocyclometalated to Dicyclometalated:  C∧N∧C Tridentate Platinum Complexes

    Article • Organometallics, April 2000, American Chemical Society (ACS)

    Dr Jonathan P Rourke, Professor Francesco Paolo Fanizzi

  42. Chiral cyclopalladated liquid crystals from amino acids

    Article • Journal of Organometallic Chemistry, April 2000, Elsevier

    Dr Jonathan P Rourke

  43. (6-Chloropyridin-2-yl)iodobis(triphenylphosphine)palladium(II)

    Article • Acta Crystallographica Section C Crystal Structure Communications, September 1999, International Union of Crystallography

    Dr Jonathan P Rourke

  44. High-Yield Synthesis of a C∧N∧C Tridentate Platinum Complex

    Article • Organometallics, April 1999, American Chemical Society (ACS)

    Dr Jonathan P Rourke

  45. trans-Diiodobis(triphenylphosphine)palladium(II)

    Article • Acta Crystallographica Section C Crystal Structure Communications, March 1999, International Union of Crystallography

    Dr Jonathan P Rourke

  46. Inter- versus Intramolecular C−H Activation: Synthesis and Characterization of a Novel Platinum-Carbene Complex

    Article • Angewandte Chemie International Edition, December 1998, Wiley

    Dr Jonathan P Rourke

  47. Intermolekulare versus intramolekulare C-H-Aktivierung: Synthese und Charakterisierung eines neuartigen Carbenplatinkomplexes

    Article • Angewandte Chemie, December 1998, Wiley

    Dr Jonathan P Rourke

  48. Intermolekulare versus intramolekulare C-H-Aktivierung: Synthese und Charakterisierung eines neuartigen Carbenplatinkomplexes

    Article • Angewandte Chemie, December 1998, Wiley

    Dr Jonathan P Rourke

  49. Cyclopalladated Schiff's base liquid crystals: the effect of the acac group on the thermal behaviour

    Article • Journal of Organometallic Chemistry, March 1998, Elsevier

    Dr Jonathan P Rourke

  50. Substituent effects on the cyclo-manganation reaction X-ray crystal structure of Mn{2-(nBu-N=CH) 5-(NO2) C6H3}(CO)4

    Article • Journal of Organometallic Chemistry, March 1997, Elsevier

    Dr Jonathan P Rourke

  51. Di-cyclopalladated Schiff’s base liquid crystals: novel metallomesogens

    Article • Chemical Communications, January 1997, Royal Society of Chemistry

    Dr Jonathan P Rourke

  52. Cyclopalladated acac and cp liquid crystals: a comparative study

    Article • Journal of Materials Chemistry, January 1997, Royal Society of Chemistry

    Dr Jonathan P Rourke

  53. Dalton communications. Organometallic liquid crystals based on octahedral rhodium(III)

    Article • Journal of the Chemical Society Dalton Transactions, January 1995, Royal Society of Chemistry

    Professor Todd B. Marder, Dr Jonathan P Rourke

  54. Transition Metal Rimmed-Calixresorcinarene Complexes

    Article • Inorganic Chemistry, January 1995, American Chemical Society (ACS)

    Dr Jonathan P Rourke

  55. Anion inclusion by a calix[4]arene complex: a contrast between tetranuclear gold(I) and copper(I) complexes

    Article • Journal of the Chemical Society Chemical Communications, January 1993, Royal Society of Chemistry

    Dr Jonathan P Rourke

  56. Synthesis and properties of (±)-trans-(η2-alkene)(4-alkyloxy-4′-stilbazole)dichloroplatinum: a remarkable family of low-melting metallomesogens

    Article • Journal of the Chemical Society Dalton Transactions, January 1992, Royal Society of Chemistry

    Dr Jonathan P Rourke, Professor Francesco Paolo Fanizzi

  57. trans-(η2-Alkene)(4′-alkyloxy-4-stilbazole)dichloroplatinum; low melting organometallic mesogens

    Article • Journal of the Chemical Society Chemical Communications, January 1990, Royal Society of Chemistry

    Dr Jonathan P Rourke, Professor Francesco Paolo Fanizzi