Dr Jonathan Rourke
(he/him)
- Available for postgraduate supervision
Teams and roles for Jonathan Rourke
Reader in Chemistry
Overview
Research interests in
1) mechanistic organometallic chemistry
2) the chemistry and properties of graphene and graphene oxide
Co-author of Shriver and Atkins Inorganic Chemistry 4th Ed, (2006), 5th ed (2010), Inorganic Chemistry 6th ed (2014), 7th ed (2018), 8th ed (2025), and a contributer to Comprehensive Organometallic Chemistry III.
Publication
2023
- Spencer-Briggs, J. L. and Rourke, J. P. 2023. A new bridging "Introduction to university chemistry" module for Cardiff university. Journal of Chemical Education 100(2), pp. 554-563. (10.1021/acs.jchemed.2c00654)
- Marsden, A. J. et al. 2023. From graphene to graphene oxide: the importance of extended topological defects. Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics 24(4), pp. 2318-2331. (10.1039/D1CP04316A)
2022
- Maidich, L., Pilo, M. I., Rourke, J. P., Clarkson, G. J., Canu, P., Stoccoro, S. and Zucca, A. 2022. Classical vs. Non-classical cyclometalated pt(ii) complexes. Molecules 27(21), article number: 7249. (10.3390/molecules27217249)
2020
- Argent, S. P. et al. 2020. A family of diastereomeric dodecanuclear coordination cages based on inversion of chirality of individual triangular cyclic helicate faces. Chemical Science 11(37), pp. 10167-10174. (10.1039/D0SC04347H)
- De Visser, S. P., Rourke, J. P. and Vincent, K. A. 2020. Inorganic reaction mechanisms. Dalton Transactions 49(15), pp. 4597-4598. (10.1039/D0DT90059A)
2019
- Mannu, A. et al. 2019. Variation of the chemical composition of waste cooking oils upon bentonite filtration. Resources 8(2), article number: 108. (10.3390/resources8020108)
2018
- Knighton, R. C., Emerson-King, J., Rourke, J. P., Ohlin, C. A. and Chaplin, A. B. 2018. Solution, solid-state, and computational analysis of agostic interactions in a coherent set of low-coordinate rhodium(III) and iridium(III) complexes. Chemistry - A European Journal 24(19), pp. 4927-4938. (10.1002/chem.201705990)
- Petretto, G. et al. 2018. Chemical composition and antimicrobial activity of essential oils from Cuminum cyminum L. collected in different areas of Morocco. Food Bioscience 22, pp. 50-58. (10.1016/j.fbio.2018.01.004)
2017
- Fancello, F., Zara, S., Petretto, G. L., Chessa, M., Addis, R., Rourke, J. P. and Pintore, G. 2017. Essential oils from three species of Mentha harvested in Sardinia: chemical characterization and evaluation of their biological activity. International Journal of Food Properties 20(S2), pp. 1751-1761. (10.1080/10942912.2017.1354020)
- Shaw, P. A., Clarkson, G. J. and Rourke, J. P. 2017. Oxidation of an o -tolyl phosphine complex of platinum: C-H activation and transcyclometallation. Journal of Organometallic Chemistry 851, pp. 115-121. (10.1016/j.jorganchem.2017.09.026)
- Biggs, C. I., Packer, C., Hindmarsh, S., Walker, M., Wilson, N. R., Rourke, J. P. and Gibson, M. I. 2017. Impact of sequential surface-modification of graphene oxide on ice nucleation. Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics 19(33), pp. 21929-21932. (10.1039/C7CP03219F)
- Maldini, M., Foddai, M., Natella, F., Petretto, G. L., Rourke, J. P., Chessa, M. and Pintore, G. 2017. Identification and quantification of glucosinolates in different tissues of Raphanus raphanistrum by liquid chromatography tandem-mass spectrometry. Journal of Food Composition and Analysis 61, pp. 20-27. (10.1016/j.jfca.2016.06.002)
- Shaw, P. A., Clarkson, G. J. and Rourke, J. P. 2017. Reversible C-C bond formation at a triply cyclometallated platinum(IV) centre. Chemical Science 8(8), pp. 5547-5558. (10.1039/C7SC01361B)
- Petretto, G. L., Urgeghe, P. P., Mascia, I., Fadda, C., Rourke, J. P. and Pintore, G. 2017. Stir bar sorptive extraction coupled with GC/MS applied to honey: optimization of method and comparative study with headspace extraction techniques. European Food Research and Technology 243(5), pp. 735-741. (10.1007/s00217-016-2787-9)
- Shaw, P. A. and Rourke, J. P. 2017. Selective C-C coupling at a Pt(IV) centre: 100% preference for sp2-sp3 over sp3-sp3. Dalton Transactions 46(14), pp. 4768-4776. (10.1039/C7DT00328E)
- Omer, E. A., Hendawy, S. F., Ismail, R. F., Petretto, G. L., Rourke, J. P. and Pintore, G. 2017. Acclimatization study of Tagetes lucida L. in Egypt and the chemical characterization of its essential oils. Natural Product Research 31(13), pp. 1509-1517. (10.1080/14786419.2017.1278594)
- Petretto, G. L., Tuberoso, C. I. G., Fenu, M. A., Rourke, J. P., Belhaj, O. and Pintore, G. 2017. Antioxidant activity, color chromaticity coordinates, and chemical characterization of monofloral honeys from Morocco. International Journal of Food Properties 20(9), pp. 2016-2027. (10.1080/10942912.2016.1230745)
- Bosch-Navarro, C., Laker, Z. P., Marsden, A. J., Wilson, N. R. and Rourke, J. P. 2017. Non-covalent functionalization of graphene with a hydrophilic self-limiting monolayer for macro-molecule immobilization. FlatChem 1, pp. 52-56. (10.1016/j.flatc.2016.11.001)
2016
- Shaw, P. A., Clarkson, G. J. and Rourke, J. P. 2016. Long-lived five-coordinate platinum(IV) intermediates: regiospecific C-C coupling. Organometallics 35(21), pp. 3751-3762. (10.1021/acs.organomet.6b00697)
- Petretto, G. L. et al. 2016. Citrus monstruosa discrimination among several citrus species by multivariate analysis of volatiles: A metabolomic approach. Journal of Food Processing and Preservation 40(5), pp. 950. (10.1111/jfpp.12674)
- Maldini, M. et al. 2016. Profiling and simultaneous quantitative determination of anthocyanins in wild myrtus communisL. berries from different geographical areas in sardinia and their comparative evaluation. Phytochemical Analysis 27(5), pp. 249-256. (10.1002/pca.2623)
- Maldini, M. et al. 2016. Profiling and simultaneous quantitativedetermination of anthocyanins in wild Myrtus communis L. berries from different geographical areas in Sardinia and their comparative evaluation. Phytochemical Analysis 27(5), pp. 249-256. (10.1002/pca.2623)
- Shaw, P. A., Phillips, J. M., Clarkson, G. J. and Rourke, J. P. 2016. Trapping five-coordinate platinum(IV) intermediates. Dalton Transactions 45(28), pp. 11397-11406. (10.1039/C6DT02088G)
- Bosch-Navarro, C., Rourke, J. P. and Wilson, N. R. 2016. Controlled electrochemical and electroless deposition of noble metal nanoparticles on graphene. RSC Advances 6(77), pp. 73790-73796. (10.1039/C6RA14836K)
- Fancello, F. et al. 2016. Chemical characterization, antioxidant capacity and antimicrobial activity against food related microorganisms of Citrus limon var. pompia leaf essential oil. Food Science and Technology 69, pp. 579-585. (10.1016/j.lwt.2016.02.018)
- Petretto, G. L., Maldini, M., Addis, R., Chessa, M., Foddai, M., Rourke, J. P. and Pintore, G. 2016. Variability of chemical composition and antioxidant activity of essential oils between Myrtus communis var. Leucocarpa DC and var. Melanocarpa DC. Food Chemistry 197(Part A), pp. 124-131. (10.1016/j.foodchem.2015.10.056)
- Troadec, T., Tan, S., Wedge, C. J., Rourke, J. P., Unwin, P. R. and Chaplin, A. B. 2016. One-electron oxidation of [M(Pt Bu3 )2 ] (M=Pd, Pt): isolation of monomeric [Pd(Pt Bu3 )2 ]+ and redox-promoted C-H bond cyclometalation. Angewandte Chemie International Edition 55(11), pp. 3754-3757. (10.1002/anie.201511467)
- Troadec, T., Tan, S., Wedge, C. J., Rourke, J. P., Unwin, P. R. and Chaplin, A. B. 2016. One-electron oxidation of [M((PBu3)-Bu-t)(2)] (M=Pd, Pt): isolation of monomeric [Pd((PBu3)-Bu-t)(2)](+) and redox-promoted C-H bond cyclometalation. Angewandte Chemie International Edition 55(11), pp. 3754-3757. (10.1002/anie.201511467)
- Bosch-Navarro, C., Perkins, L. M., Kashtiban, R. J., Rourke, J. P., Shannon, I. J. and Sloan, J. 2016. Selective imaging of discrete polyoxometalate ions on graphene oxide under variable voltage conditions. ACS Nano 10(1), pp. 796-802. (10.1021/acsnano.5b05898)
- Rourke, J. P. and Wilson, N. R. 2016. Letter to the Editor: A defence of the two-component model of graphene oxide. Carbon 96, pp. 339-341. (10.1016/j.carbon.2015.09.083)
2015
- Thomas, H. R., Phillips, D. J., Wilson, N. R., Gibson, M. I. and Rourke, J. P. 2015. One-step grafting of polymers to graphene oxide. Polymer Chemistry 6(48), pp. 8270-8274. (10.1039/C5PY01358E)
- Bosch-Navarro, C., Laker, Z. P. L., Rourke, J. P. and Wilson, N. R. 2015. Reproducible, stable and fast electrochemical activity from easy to make graphene on copper electrodes. Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics 17(44), pp. 29628-29636. (10.1039/C5CP04070A)
- Bosch-Navarro, C., Laker, Z. P. L., Thomas, H. R., Marsden, A. J., Sloan, J., Wilson, N. R. and Rourke, J. P. 2015. Covalently binding atomically designed Au9 clusters to chemically modified graphene. Angewandte Chemie International Edition 54(33), pp. 9560-9563. (10.1002/anie.201504334)
- Bosch-Navarro, C., Walker, M., Wilson, N. R. and Rourke, J. P. 2015. Covalent modification of exfoliated fluorographite with nitrogen functionalities. Journal of Materials Chemistry. C 3(29), pp. 7627-7631. (10.1039/C5TC01633A)
- Shaw, P. A., Phillips, J. M., Newman, C. P., Clarkson, G. J. and Rourke, J. P. 2015. Intramolecular transcyclometallation: the exchange of an aryl-Pt bond for an alkyl-Pt bond via an agostic intermediate. Chemical Communications 51(39), pp. 8365-8368. (10.1039/C5CC02355F)
- Maidich, L., Dettori, G., Stoccoro, S., Cinellu, M. A., Rourke, J. P. and Zucca, A. 2015. Electronic and steric effects in rollover C-H bond activation. Organometallics 34(5), pp. 817-828. (10.1021/om500681u)
2014
- Thomas, H. R., Marsden, A. J., Walker, M., Wilson, N. R. and Rourke, J. P. 2014. Sulfur-functionalized graphene oxide by epoxide ring-opening. Angewandte Chemie International Edition 53(29), pp. 7613-7618. (10.1002/anie.201404002)
- Zucca, A. et al. 2014. Rollover‐assisted C(sp2)-C(sp3) bond formation. Chemistry - A European Journal 20(18), pp. 5501-5510. (10.1002/chem.201304257)
2013
- Valles, C., Kinloch, I. A., Young, R. J., Wilson, N. R. and Rourke, J. P. 2013. Graphene oxide and base-washed graphene oxide as reinforcements in PMMA nanocomposites. Composites Science and Technology 88, pp. 158-164. (10.1016/j.compscitech.2013.08.030)
- Thomas, H. R. et al. 2013. Deoxygenation of graphene oxide: reduction or cleaning?. Chemistry of Materials 25(18), pp. 3580-3588. (10.1021/cm401922e)
- Maidich, L., Zucca, A., Clarkson, G. J. and Rourke, J. P. 2013. Oxidative addition of MeI to a rollover complex of platinum(II): isolation of the kinetic product. Organometallics 32(11), pp. 3371-3375. (10.1021/om400300n)
- Thomas, H. R., Valles, C., Young, R. J., Kinlock, I. A., Wilson, N. R. and Rourke, J. P. 2013. Identifying the fluorescence of graphene oxide. Journal of Materials Chemistry C Materials for optical and electronic devices 1(2), pp. 338-342. (10.1039/c2tc00234e)
2012
- Crosby, S. H., Clarkson, G. J. and Rourke, J. P. 2012. Relieving steric strain a octahedral platinum(IV): isomerization and reductive coupling of alkyl and aryl chlorides. Organometallics 31(20), pp. 7256-7263. (10.1021/om3008019)
- Crosby, S. H., Thomas, H. R., Clarkson, G. J. and Rourke, J. P. 2012. Concerted reductive coupling of an alkyl chloride at Pt(IV). Chemical Communications 48(46), pp. 5775-5777. (10.1039/c2cc31572f)
- Petretto, G. L. et al. 2012. Heterobimetallic rollover derivatives. Organometallics 31(8), pp. 2971-2977. (10.1021/om200660a)
- Pandey, P. A., Rochford, L. A., Keeble, D. S., Rourke, J. P., Jones, T. S., Beanland, R. and Wilson, N. R. 2012. Resolving the nanoscale morphology and crystallographic structure of molecular thin films: F16CuPc on graphene oxide. Chemistry of Materials 24(7), pp. 1365-1370. (10.1021/cm300073v)
2011
- Pandey, P. A., Bell, G. R., Rourke, J. P., Sanchez, A. M., Elkin, M. D., Hickey, B. J. and Wilson, N. R. 2011. Physical vapor deposition of metal nanoparticles on chemically modified graphene: observations on metal-graphene interactions. Small 7(22), pp. 3202-3210. (10.1002/smll.201101430)
- Thomas, H., Deeth, R., Clarkson, G. and Rourke, J. 2011. Palladium(II) Agostic Complex: Exchange of Aryl-Pd and Alkyl-Pd Bonds. Organometallics 30(21), pp. 5641-5648. (10.1021/om200451v)
- Crosby, S. H., Clarkson, G. J. and Rourke, J. P. 2011. Reactions of a platinum(II) agostic complex: decyclometalation, dcyclometalation, and solvent-switchable formation of a rollover complex. Organometallics 30(13), pp. 3603-3609. (10.1021/om200293e)
- Speight, R. J., Rourke, J. P., Wong, A., Barrow, N. S., Ellis, P. R., Bishop, P. T. and Smith, M. E. 2011. (1)H and (13)C solution- and solid-state NMR investigation into wax products from the Fischer-Tropsch process. Solid State Nuclear Magnetic Resonance 39(3-4), pp. 58-64. (10.1016/j.ssnmr.2011.03.008)
- Rourke, J. P., Pandey, P. A., Moore, J. J., Bates, M., Kinloch, I. A., Young, R. J. and Wilson, N. R. 2011. The real graphene oxide revealed: Stripping the oxidative debris from the graphene-like sheets. Angewandte Chemie International Edition 50(14), pp. 3173-3177. (10.1002/anie.201007520)
- Crosby, S. H., Deeth, R. J., Clarkson, G. J. and Rourke, J. P. 2011. Platinum(IV) centres with agostic interactions from either sp(2) or sp(3) C-H bonds. Dalton Transactions 40(6), pp. 1227-1229. (10.1039/c0dt01428a)
2010
- Wilson, N. R., Pandey, P. A., Beanland, R., Rourke, J. P., Lupo, U. and Romer, R. A. 2010. On the structure and topography of free-standing chemically modified graphene. New Journal of Physics 12, article number: 125010. (10.1088/1367-2630/12/12/125010)
- Sloan, J. et al. 2010. Imaging the Structure, Symmetry, and Surface-Inhibited Rotation of Polyoxometalate Ions on Graphene Oxide. Nano Letters 10(11), pp. 4600-4606. (10.1021/nl1026452)
- Petretto, G., Wang, M., Zucca, A. and Rourke, J. 2010. Platinum(II) N-heterocyclic carbene complexes: coordination and cyclometallation. Dalton Transactions 39(33), pp. 7822-7825. (10.1039/c0dt00435a)
- Crosby, S., Clarkson, G., Deeth, R. and Rourke, J. 2010. Platinum(IV) DMSO Complexes: Synthesis, Isomerization, and Agostic Intermediates. Organometallics 29(8), pp. 1966-1976. (10.1021/om901087m)
2009
- Crosby, S., Clarkson, G. and Rourke, J. 2009. A Delicate Balance between sp(2) and sp(3) C-H Bond Activation: A Pt(II) Complex with a Dual Agostic Interaction. Journal of the American Chemical Society 131(40), pp. 14142-+. (10.1021/ja905046n)
- Wilson, N. et al. 2009. Graphene Oxide: Structural Analysis and Application as a Highly Transparent Support for Electron Microscopy. ACS Nano 3(9), pp. 2547-2556. (10.1021/nn900694t)
2008
- Mamtora, J., Crosby, S., Newman, C., Clarkson, G. and Rourke, J. 2008. Platinum(IV) Complexes: C-H Activation at Low Temperatures. Organometallics 27(21), pp. 5559-5565. (10.1021/om800583c)
2007
- Newman, C., Deeth, R., Clarkson, G. and Rourke, J. 2007. Synthesis of mixed NHC/L platinum(II) complexes: Restricted rotation of the NHC group. Organometallics 26(25), pp. 6225-6233. (10.1021/om700671y)
- Newman, C., Clarkson, G. and Rourke, J. 2007. Silver(I) N-heterocyclic carbene halide complexes: A new bonding motif. Journal of Organometallic Chemistry 692(22), pp. 4962-4968. (10.1016/j.jorganchem.2007.07.041)
- Newman, C., Casey-Green, K., Clarkson, G., Cave, G., Errington, W. and Rourke, J. 2007. Cyclometallated platinum(II) complexes: oxidation to, and C-H activation by, platinum(IV). Dalton Transactions(29), pp. 3170-3182. (10.1039/b705609e)
- Ball, G. E. et al. 2007. A delicate balance of complexation vs. activation of alkanes interacting with [Re(Cp)(CO)(PF3)] studied with NMR and time-resolved IR spectroscopy. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 104(17), pp. 6927-6932. (10.1073/pnas.0610212104)
2006
- McMaster, J., Portius, P., Ball, G., Rourke, J. and George, M. 2006. Density functional theoretical studies of the Re-Xe bonds in Re(Cp)(CO) (PF3)Xe and Re(Cp)(CO)(2)Xe. Organometallics 25(22), pp. 5242-5248. (10.1021/om060485l)
- Randell, K., Stanford, M., Clarkson, G. and Rourke, J. 2006. N-heterocyclic carbenes: Reaction to give anilines. Journal of Organometallic Chemistry 691(16), pp. 3411-3415. (10.1016/j.jorganchem.2006.04.034)
- Newman, C., Clarkson, G., Alcock, N. and Rourke, J. 2006. Carbene or zwitterion? Competition in organoplatinum complexes. Dalton Transactions(27), pp. 3321-3325. (10.1039/b517874f)
- Evans, P., Brown, N., Clarkson, G., Newman, C. and Rourke, J. 2006. Cyclopalladated acetate dimers: crystal structures and VT-NMR. Journal of Organometallic Chemistry 691(6), pp. 1251-1256. (10.1016/j.jorganchem.2005.11.066)
2005
- Alcock, N. W. and Rourke, J. P. 2005. 2,6-Bis[2,4-bis(heptyloxy)phenyl]pyridine. Acta Crystallographica Section E 61, pp. O368-O369. (10.1107/S1600536805001248)
- Ball, G. E., Darwish, T. A., Geftakis, S., George, M. W., Lawes, D. J., Portius, P. and Rourke, J. P. 2005. Characterization of an organometallic xenon complex using NMR and IR spectroscopy. PNAS 102(6), pp. 1853-1858. (10.1073/pnas.0406527102)
2004
- Clarke, A. et al. 2004. Silver-phosphine complexes of the highly methylated carborane monoanion [closo-1-H-CB11M11](-). Journal of the American Chemical Society 126(5), pp. 1503-1517. (10.1021/ja038173m)
2003
- Slater, J. and Rourke, J. 2003. Cyclometallated nitrogen heterocycles. Journal of Organometallic Chemistry 688(1-2), pp. 112-120. (10.1016/j.jorganchem.2003.08.038)
- Ingleson, M., Clarke, A., Mahon, M., Rourke, J. and Weller, A. 2003. [Cp2ZrMe(12-mu-Me-1-closo-CB11HMe10)]: a transition metal complex of a highly-methylated carborane anion. Chemical Communications(15), pp. 1930-1931. (10.1039/b304568d)
2002
- Jiang, Q., Womersley, M., Thomas, P., Rourke, J., Hutton, K. and Ward, R. 2002. Ferroelectric, conductive, and dielectric properties of KTiOPO4 at low temperature. Physical Review B 66(9), pp. 8. (10.1103/PhysRevB.66.094102)
- Harrisson, S., Rourke, J. and Haddleton, D. 2002. C-13 kinetic isotope effects in the copper(I)-mediated living radical polymerization of methyl methacrylate. Chemical Communications(14), pp. 1470-1471. (10.1039/b203675d)
- Slater, J., Lydon, D. and Rourke, J. 2002. Doubly cyclopalladated pyridazines: chiral liquid crystals. Journal of Organometallic Chemistry 645(1-2), pp. 246-255. (10.1016/S0022-328X(01)01330-4)
- Rourke, J., Stringer, G., Chow, P., Deeth, R., Yufit, D., Howard, J. and Marder, T. 2002. Mechanism of formation of [(PMe3)(3)Rh(-C equivalent to C-R)(2)(H)] via C-H oxidative addition: Isomerization, alkyne exchange, and hydride replacement. Organometallics 21(2), pp. 429-437. (10.1021/om010685r)
2001
- Rourke, J., Batsanov, A., Howard, J. and Marder, T. 2001. Regiospecific high yield reductive coupling of diynes to give a luminescent rhodium complex. Chemical Communications(24), pp. 2626-2627. (10.1039/b108625a)
- Slater, J., Lydon, D., Alcock, N. and Rourke, J. 2001. Doubly cyclometalated pyridazines: Contrasting behavior with palladium and platinum. Organometallics 20(21), pp. 4418-4423. (10.1021/om010449g)
- Newman, C., Cave, G., Wong, M., Errington, W., Alcock, N. and Rourke, J. 2001. Di-metallated platinum carbonyl complexes: platinum-platinum interactions in the solid state. JOURNAL OF THE CHEMICAL SOCIETY-DALTON TRANSACTIONS(18), pp. 2678-2682. (10.1039/b105073g)
- Rourke, J., Slater, J. and Lydon, D. 2001. Cyclometallation of pyridazines. Abstracts of Papers of the American Chemical Society 222, pp. U606-U606.
2000
- Saccomando, D., Black, C., Cave, G., Lydon, D. and Rourke, J. 2000. Chiral cyclopalladated liquid crystals from amino acids. Journal of Organometallic Chemistry 601(2), pp. 305-310. (10.1016/S0022-328X(00)00087-5)
- Cave, G., Fanizzi, F., Deeth, R., Errington, W. and Rourke, J. 2000. C-H activation induced by water. Monocyclometalated to dicyclometalated: C boolean AND N boolean AND C tridentate platinum complexes. Organometallics 19(7), pp. 1355-1364. (10.1021/om9910423)
- Fanizzi, F., Alicino, V., Cardellicchio, C., Tortorella, P. and Rourke, J. 2000. Trans-Dichloro(stilbazole)(methyl n-alkyl sulfoxide)platinum(II) complexes: the first examples of metallomesogens containing chiral centres directly bonded to the metal. Chemical Communications(8), pp. 673-674. (10.1039/b000594k)
1999
- Cave, G., Errington, W. and Rourke, J. 1999. (6-chloropyridin-2-yl)iodobis(triphenylphosphine)palladium(II). Acta Crystallographica, Section C, Crystal Structure Communications 55, pp. 1461-1463. (10.1107/S0108270199007866)
- Rourke, J. 1999. Platinum carbenes and carbonyls. Abstracts of Papers of the American Chemical Society 218, pp. U719-U719.
- Cave, G., Alcock, N. and Rourke, J. 1999. High-yield synthesis of a C boolean AND N boolean AND C tridentate platinum complex. Organometallics 18(9), pp. 1801-1803. (10.1021/om981006o)
- Cave, G., Errington, W. and Rourke, J. 1999. Trans-diiodobis(triphenylphosphine)-palladium(II). Acta Crystallographica Section C: Structural Chemistry 55(3), pp. 320-322. (10.1107/S0108270198015868)
1998
- Cave, G., Hallett, A., Errington, W. and Rourke, J. 1998. Inter- versus intramolecular C-H activation: Synthesis and characterization of a novel platinum-carbene complex. Angewandte Chemie-International Edition 37(23), pp. 3270-3272. (10.1002/(SICI)1521-3773(19981217)37:23<3270::AID-ANIE3270>3.0.CO;2-2)
- Rourke, J. and Lydon, D. 1998. Homo- and hetero-bimetallic liquid crystals. Abstracts of Papers of the American Chemical Society 215, pp. U836-U836.
- Cave, G., Lydon, D. and Rourke, J. 1998. Cyclopalladated Schiff's base liquid crystals: the effect of the acac group on the thermal behaviour. Journal of Organometallic Chemistry 555(1), pp. 81-88. (10.1016/S0022-328X(97)00751-1)
1997
- Lydon, D. and Rourke, J. 1997. Di-cyclopalladated Schiff's base liquid crystals: Novel metallomesogens. Chemical Communications(18), pp. 1741-1742. (10.1039/a704110a)
- Lydon, D., Cave, G. and Rourke, J. 1997. Cyclopalladated acac and cp liquid crystals: A comparative study. Journal of Materials Chemistry 7(3), pp. 403-406. (10.1039/a605791h)
- Morton, C., Duncalf, D. and Rourke, J. 1997. Substituent effects on the cyclo-manganation reaction - X-ray crystal structure of Mn{2-(Bu-n-N=CH)5-(NO2)C6H3}(CO)(4). Journal of Organometallic Chemistry 530(1-2), pp. 19-25. (10.1016/S0022-328X(96)06663-6)
1995
- Rourke, J., Bruce, D. and Marder, T. 1995. Dalton communications. Organometallic liquid crystals based on octahedral rhodium(III). JOURNAL OF THE CHEMICAL SOCIETY-DALTON TRANSACTIONS(2), pp. 317-318. (10.1039/dt9950000317)
- Xu, W., Rourke, J., Vittal, J. and Puddephatt, R. 1995. Transition-metal rimmed calixresorcinarene complexes. Inorganic Chemistry 34(1), pp. 323-329. (10.1021/ic00105a050)
1994
- Bruce, D. and Rourke, J. 1994. The Synthesis and Characterization of Potentially Mesomorphic Carbonyl-Complexes of Tungsten(0) with Substituted Pyridines. Polyhedron 14(13-14), pp. 1915-1922. (10.1016/0277-5387(94)00450-S)
- Bruce, D., Lea, M., Marsden, J., Rourke, J. and Tajbakhsh, A. 1994. Mesomorphic arylethynes and their precursors. Journal of Materials Chemistry 4(7), pp. 1017-1020. (10.1039/jm9940401017)
1993
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- Knighton, R. C., Emerson-King, J., Rourke, J. P., Ohlin, C. A. and Chaplin, A. B. 2018. Solution, solid-state, and computational analysis of agostic interactions in a coherent set of low-coordinate rhodium(III) and iridium(III) complexes. Chemistry - A European Journal 24(19), pp. 4927-4938. (10.1002/chem.201705990)
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- Petretto, G. L., Urgeghe, P. P., Mascia, I., Fadda, C., Rourke, J. P. and Pintore, G. 2017. Stir bar sorptive extraction coupled with GC/MS applied to honey: optimization of method and comparative study with headspace extraction techniques. European Food Research and Technology 243(5), pp. 735-741. (10.1007/s00217-016-2787-9)
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- Valles, C., Kinloch, I. A., Young, R. J., Wilson, N. R. and Rourke, J. P. 2013. Graphene oxide and base-washed graphene oxide as reinforcements in PMMA nanocomposites. Composites Science and Technology 88, pp. 158-164. (10.1016/j.compscitech.2013.08.030)
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- Maidich, L., Zucca, A., Clarkson, G. J. and Rourke, J. P. 2013. Oxidative addition of MeI to a rollover complex of platinum(II): isolation of the kinetic product. Organometallics 32(11), pp. 3371-3375. (10.1021/om400300n)
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- Speight, R. J., Rourke, J. P., Wong, A., Barrow, N. S., Ellis, P. R., Bishop, P. T. and Smith, M. E. 2011. (1)H and (13)C solution- and solid-state NMR investigation into wax products from the Fischer-Tropsch process. Solid State Nuclear Magnetic Resonance 39(3-4), pp. 58-64. (10.1016/j.ssnmr.2011.03.008)
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- Wilson, N. R., Pandey, P. A., Beanland, R., Rourke, J. P., Lupo, U. and Romer, R. A. 2010. On the structure and topography of free-standing chemically modified graphene. New Journal of Physics 12, article number: 125010. (10.1088/1367-2630/12/12/125010)
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- Crosby, S., Clarkson, G. and Rourke, J. 2009. A Delicate Balance between sp(2) and sp(3) C-H Bond Activation: A Pt(II) Complex with a Dual Agostic Interaction. Journal of the American Chemical Society 131(40), pp. 14142-+. (10.1021/ja905046n)
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- Mamtora, J., Crosby, S., Newman, C., Clarkson, G. and Rourke, J. 2008. Platinum(IV) Complexes: C-H Activation at Low Temperatures. Organometallics 27(21), pp. 5559-5565. (10.1021/om800583c)
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- Newman, C., Clarkson, G. and Rourke, J. 2007. Silver(I) N-heterocyclic carbene halide complexes: A new bonding motif. Journal of Organometallic Chemistry 692(22), pp. 4962-4968. (10.1016/j.jorganchem.2007.07.041)
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- Evans, P., Brown, N., Clarkson, G., Newman, C. and Rourke, J. 2006. Cyclopalladated acetate dimers: crystal structures and VT-NMR. Journal of Organometallic Chemistry 691(6), pp. 1251-1256. (10.1016/j.jorganchem.2005.11.066)
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- Ball, G. E., Darwish, T. A., Geftakis, S., George, M. W., Lawes, D. J., Portius, P. and Rourke, J. P. 2005. Characterization of an organometallic xenon complex using NMR and IR spectroscopy. PNAS 102(6), pp. 1853-1858. (10.1073/pnas.0406527102)
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- Ingleson, M., Clarke, A., Mahon, M., Rourke, J. and Weller, A. 2003. [Cp2ZrMe(12-mu-Me-1-closo-CB11HMe10)]: a transition metal complex of a highly-methylated carborane anion. Chemical Communications(15), pp. 1930-1931. (10.1039/b304568d)
- Jiang, Q., Womersley, M., Thomas, P., Rourke, J., Hutton, K. and Ward, R. 2002. Ferroelectric, conductive, and dielectric properties of KTiOPO4 at low temperature. Physical Review B 66(9), pp. 8. (10.1103/PhysRevB.66.094102)
- Harrisson, S., Rourke, J. and Haddleton, D. 2002. C-13 kinetic isotope effects in the copper(I)-mediated living radical polymerization of methyl methacrylate. Chemical Communications(14), pp. 1470-1471. (10.1039/b203675d)
- Slater, J., Lydon, D. and Rourke, J. 2002. Doubly cyclopalladated pyridazines: chiral liquid crystals. Journal of Organometallic Chemistry 645(1-2), pp. 246-255. (10.1016/S0022-328X(01)01330-4)
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- Lydon, D., Cave, G. and Rourke, J. 1997. Cyclopalladated acac and cp liquid crystals: A comparative study. Journal of Materials Chemistry 7(3), pp. 403-406. (10.1039/a605791h)
- Morton, C., Duncalf, D. and Rourke, J. 1997. Substituent effects on the cyclo-manganation reaction - X-ray crystal structure of Mn{2-(Bu-n-N=CH)5-(NO2)C6H3}(CO)(4). Journal of Organometallic Chemistry 530(1-2), pp. 19-25. (10.1016/S0022-328X(96)06663-6)
- Rourke, J., Bruce, D. and Marder, T. 1995. Dalton communications. Organometallic liquid crystals based on octahedral rhodium(III). JOURNAL OF THE CHEMICAL SOCIETY-DALTON TRANSACTIONS(2), pp. 317-318. (10.1039/dt9950000317)
- Xu, W., Rourke, J., Vittal, J. and Puddephatt, R. 1995. Transition-metal rimmed calixresorcinarene complexes. Inorganic Chemistry 34(1), pp. 323-329. (10.1021/ic00105a050)
- Bruce, D. and Rourke, J. 1994. The Synthesis and Characterization of Potentially Mesomorphic Carbonyl-Complexes of Tungsten(0) with Substituted Pyridines. Polyhedron 14(13-14), pp. 1915-1922. (10.1016/0277-5387(94)00450-S)
- Bruce, D., Lea, M., Marsden, J., Rourke, J. and Tajbakhsh, A. 1994. Mesomorphic arylethynes and their precursors. Journal of Materials Chemistry 4(7), pp. 1017-1020. (10.1039/jm9940401017)
- Xu, W., Rourke, J., Vittal, J. and Puddephatt, R. 1993. Anion inclusion by a calix[4]arene complex: a contrast between tetranuclear gold(I) and copper(I) complexes. Journal of the chemical society-chemical communications(2), pp. 145-147. (10.1039/c39930000145)
- Rourke, J., Fanizzi, F., Bruce, D., Dunmur, D. and Maitlis, P. 1992. Synthesis and properties of (±)-trans-(η2-alkene)(4-alkyloxy-4′-stilbazole)dichloroplatinum: a remarkable family of low-melting metallomesogens. JOURNAL OF THE CHEMICAL SOCIETY-DALTON TRANSACTIONS(20), pp. 3009-3014. (10.1039/dt9920003009)
- Rourke, J., Fanizzi, F., Salt, N., Bruce, D., Dunmur, D. and Maitlis, P. 1990. Trans-(eta-2-alkene)(4'-alkyloxy-4-stilbazole)dichloroplatinum - low melting organometallic mesogens. Journal of the chemical society-chemical communications(3), pp. 229-231. (10.1039/c39900000229)
Conferences
- Maitlis, P. et al. 1990. Metallomesogens - organometallic and coordination-complexes with liquid-crystalline properties. Presented at: Conference on New Perspectives in Organometallic, Konigstein Am Taunus, Fed Rep Ger, 25-29 September 1989, Vol. 14. Vol. 6-7. pp. 549-551.
Teaching
CH5108 Introduction to University Chemistry
CH5102 Foundations of Inorganic Chemistry
CH5202 Inorganic Chemistry
Biography
1989 PhD, University of Sheffield, supervisor PM Maitlis
1900-91PDRA, University of Western Ontario, working with Prof RJ Puddephatt
1992-1993, PDRA University of Sheffield, working with Prof DW Bruce
1993-94, Lecturer, University of Bristol
1994-2018, Lecturer, Senior Lecturer, Reader, University of Warwick
2019-2021, Director of Learning and Teaching, Cardiff University
2019-present, Honorary Professor, University of Warwick