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  1. Fluorescent and colorimetric sensors for anions: Highlights from 2020 to 2022

    Article • Coordination Chemistry Reviews, February 2024, Elsevier

    Dr. Riccardo Montis

  2. Squaramide-based receptors in anion supramolecular chemistry: insights into anion binding, sensing, transport and extraction

    Article • Chemical Society Reviews, January 2024, Royal Society of Chemistry

    Dr. Riccardo Montis

  3. Combining Structural Rugosity and Crystal Packing Comparison: A Route to More Polymorphs?

    Article • Crystal Growth & Design, December 2021, American Chemical Society (ACS)

    Dr. Riccardo Montis

  4. Coordination Chemistry and Sensing Properties Towards Anions and Metal Ions of a Simple Fluorescent Urea

    Article • European Journal of Inorganic Chemistry, September 2021, Wiley

    Dr. Riccardo Montis

  5. Switching polymorph stabilities with impurities provides a thermodynamic route to benzamide form III

    Article • Communications Chemistry, March 2021, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr. Riccardo Montis

  6. Switching-On Fluorescence by Copper (II) and Basic Anions: A Case Study with a Pyrene-Functionalized Squaramide

    Article • Molecules, February 2021, MDPI AG

    Dr. Riccardo Montis

  7. Complex structures arising from the self-assembly of a simple organic salt

    Article • Nature, February 2021, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr. Riccardo Montis

  8. Transforming Computed Energy Landscapes into Experimental Realities – the Role of Structural Rugosity

    Article • Angewandte Chemie International Edition, July 2020, Wiley

    Dr. Riccardo Montis

  9. Halogenated isophthalamides and dipicolineamides: the role of the halogen substituents in the anion binding properties

    Article • Dalton Transactions, January 2020, Royal Society of Chemistry

    Dr. Riccardo Montis, Dr Simon J Coles

  10. When crystals don’t grow - the growth dead zone.

    Article • Crystal Growth & Design, June 2019, American Chemical Society (ACS)

    Dr. Riccardo Montis

  11. Fluoride binding by an anionic receptor: tuning the acidity of amide NH groups for basic anion hydrogen bonding and recognition

    Article • Chemical Communications, January 2019, Royal Society of Chemistry

    Dr. Riccardo Montis, Professor Philip Gale, Dr Simon J Coles

  12. [9]aneN3-based fluorescent receptors for metal ion sensing, featuring urea and amide functional groups

    Article • Dalton Transactions, January 2019, Royal Society of Chemistry

    Dr. Riccardo Montis

  13. Identifying triplet pathways in dilute pentacene films

    Article • Nature Communications, October 2018, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr. Riccardo Montis

  14. Structural diversity in the products formed by the reactions of 2-arylselanyl pyridine derivatives and dihalogens

    Article • New Journal of Chemistry, January 2018, Royal Society of Chemistry

    Dr. Riccardo Montis

  15. Halogen-substituted ureas for anion binding: solid state and solution studies

    Article • Supramolecular Chemistry, September 2017, Taylor & Francis

    Dr. Riccardo Montis

  16. Hydrogen- and halogen-bond cooperativity in determining the crystal packing of dihalogen charge-transfer adducts: a study case from heterocyclic pentatomic chalcogenone donors

    Article • CrystEngComm, January 2017, Royal Society of Chemistry

    Dr Antonio Frontera, Dr. Riccardo Montis

  17. Fluorescent asymmetric bis-ureas for pyrophosphate recognition in pure water

    Article • Dalton Transactions, January 2016, Royal Society of Chemistry

    Dr. Riccardo Montis

  18. Tris-ureas as transmembrane anion transporters

    Article • Dalton Transactions, January 2016, Royal Society of Chemistry

    Dr Simon J Coles, Professor Philip Gale, Dr. Riccardo Montis

  19. 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

  20. Anion complexation, transport and structural studies of a series of bis-methylurea compounds

    Article • Dalton Transactions, January 2015, Royal Society of Chemistry

    Dr Simon J Coles, Professor Philip Gale, Dr. Riccardo Montis

  21. 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

  22. 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

  23. 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

  24. 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

  25. 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

  26. “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

  27. 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

  28. 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

  29. 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

  30. 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

  31. 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

  32. 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

  33. 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

  34. 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

  35. 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

  36. 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

  37. 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

  38. 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