Dr Jonathan Rourke

Reader in Chemistry

Email:: rourkej1@cardiff.ac.uk
Telephone:: +44 (0)29 2087 9183

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), and a contributer to Comprehensive Organometallic Chemistry III.

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- Director of Learning and Teaching, Cardiff University.

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.et al. 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.et al. 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.et al. 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.et al. 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.et al. 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.et al. 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.et al. 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.et al. 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)
Shaw, P. A.et al. 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.et al. 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.et al. 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)
Bosch-Navarro, C.et al. 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.et al. 2015. One-step grafting of polymers to graphene oxide. Polymer Chemistry 6(48), pp. 8270-8274. (10.1039/C5PY01358E)
Bosch-Navarro, C.et al. 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.et al. 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.et al. 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.et al. 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.et al. 2015. Electronic and steric effects in rollover C-H bond activation. Organometallics 34(5), pp. 817-828. (10.1021/om500681u)

2014

Thomas, H. R.et al. 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)

CH3102 Foundations of Inorganic Chemistry