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  1. Silica-based nanoparticles: a versatile tool for the development of efficient imaging agents

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

    Riccardo Montis, Claudia Caltagirone, Dr. Riccardo Montis

  2. A mechanophysical phase transition provides a dramatic example of colour polymorphism: the tribochromism of a substituted tri(methylene)tetrahydrofuran-2-one

    Article • Chemistry Central Journal, December 2014, Springer Science + Business Media

    Riccardo Montis, Professor Abdullah M. Asiri, Prof. Dr. Abdullah M. Asiri, Dr. Riccardo Montis

  3. Development of a novel PVC-membrane fluorescent sensor based on N,N′-bis(dansylamidoethyl)-N,N′-bis(2-pyridylmethyl)propylene-diamine as a new fluoroionophore for highly sensitive and selective monitoring of trace amounts of La3+ ions in aqueous solutions

    Article • Sensors and Actuators B Chemical, March 2014, Elsevier

    Riccardo Montis, Dr. Riccardo Montis

  4. Anhydrates and/or hydrates in nitrate, sulphate and phosphate salts of 4-aminopyridine, (4-AP) and 3,4-diaminopyridine (3,4-DAP): the role of the water molecules in the hydrates

    Article • CrystEngComm, January 2014, Royal Society of Chemistry

    Riccardo Montis, Professor Abdullah M. Asiri, Prof. Dr. Abdullah M. Asiri, Dr. Riccardo Montis

  5. Reactivity of the drug methimazole and its iodine adduct with elemental zinc

    Article • CrystEngComm, January 2014, Royal Society of Chemistry

    Riccardo Montis, Dr. Riccardo Montis

  6. Reply to the ‘Comment on “Non-symmetric substituted ureas locked in an (E,Z) conformation: an unusual anion binding via supramolecular assembly” by B. Ośmiałowski and E. Kolehmainen, New J. Chem., 2014, 38, DOI: 10.1039/c3nj01282d

    Article • New Journal of Chemistry, January 2014, Royal Society of Chemistry

    Claudia Caltagirone, Riccardo Montis, Dr. Riccardo Montis

  7. “In-Silico Seeding”: Isostructurality and Pseudoisostructurality in a Family of Aspirin Derivatives

    Article • Crystal Growth & Design, June 2013, American Chemical Society (ACS)

    Riccardo Montis, Dr. Riccardo Montis

  8. A new family of bis-ureidic receptors for pyrophosphate optical sensing

    Article • Organic & Biomolecular Chemistry, January 2013, Royal Society of Chemistry

    Riccardo Montis, Dr. Riccardo Montis

  9. Zn2+/Cd2+ optical discrimination by fluorescent chemosensors based on 8-hydroxyquinoline derivatives and sulfur-containing macrocyclic units

    Article • Dalton Transactions, January 2013, Royal Society of Chemistry

    Riccardo Montis, Dr. Riccardo Montis

  10. Non-symmetric substituted ureas locked in an (E,Z) conformation: an unusual anion binding via supramolecular assembly

    Article • New Journal of Chemistry, January 2013, Royal Society of Chemistry

    Riccardo Montis, Dr. Riccardo Montis

  11. Bis(2-pyridylmethyl)alkyl(thioalkyl)diamines as promising scaffolds for the construction of fluorescent and redox chemosensors for transition and post-transition metal ions

    Article • Inorganica Chimica Acta, February 2012, Elsevier

    Riccardo Montis, Alexander John Blake, Dr. Riccardo Montis

  12. Importance of Solvent Selection for Stoichiometrically Diverse Cocrystal Systems: Caffeine/Maleic Acid 1:1 and 2:1 Cocrystals

    Article • Crystal Growth & Design, January 2012, American Chemical Society (ACS)

    Riccardo Montis, Dr. Riccardo Montis

  13. Cationic and anionic 1D chains based on NH+⋯N charge-assisted hydrogen bonds in bipyridyl derivatives and polyiodides

    Article • CrystEngComm, January 2012, Royal Society of Chemistry

    Riccardo Montis, Dr. Riccardo Montis

  14. Surprisingly complex supramolecular behaviour in the crystal structures of a family of mono-substituted salicylic acids

    Article • CrystEngComm, January 2012, Royal Society of Chemistry

    Riccardo Montis, Dr. Riccardo Montis

  15. Crystalline adducts of some substituted salicylic acids with 4-aminopyridine, including hydrates and solvates: contact and separated ionic complexes with diverse supramolecular synthons

    Article • CrystEngComm, January 2012, Royal Society of Chemistry

    Riccardo Montis, Dr. Riccardo Montis

  16. Experimental and theoretical investigations of the polymorphism of 5-chloroacetoxybenzoic acid (5-chloroaspirin)

    Article • CrystEngComm, January 2012, Royal Society of Chemistry

    Riccardo Montis, Dr. Riccardo Montis

  17. Enantiotropic conformational polymorphism in 2,2,4,4-bis-(2′,2′-dimethylpropane-1′,3′-dioxy)-6,6-dichlorocyclotriphosphazene

    Article • CrystEngComm, January 2011, Royal Society of Chemistry

    Dr Simon J Coles, Riccardo Montis, Dr. Riccardo Montis

  18. Further crystal structures for the substituted aspirin family of molecules: the first aspirin carboxylate catemer and a detailed assessment of the subtle influences of weak intermolecular interactions

    Article • CrystEngComm, January 2011, Royal Society of Chemistry

    Riccardo Montis, Dr. Riccardo Montis

  19. Intriguing relationships and associations in the crystal structures of a family of substituted aspirin molecules

    Article • CrystEngComm, January 2010, Royal Society of Chemistry

    Riccardo Montis, Dr. Riccardo Montis