Some Recent Selected Publications:

  • Crystal Engineering and Sorption Studies on CN- and dipyridyl-bridged 2D coordination Polymer. V. B. N. Eloundou, P. K. Tsobnang, T. Kamgaing, C. Gogoi, N. Lopaz-Salas, S. A. Bourne. CrystEngComm, 2024, 26, 4195-4204. https://doi.org/10.1039/D4CE00459K 
  • Crystal Engineering in Africa. S.A. Bourne, D. A. Haynes, P. K. Tsobnang. CrystEngComm, 2024, 26, 8-10.   https://doi.org/10.1039/D3CE90156D
  • Solvatochromism and the Effect of Solvent on Properties in a Two-Dimensional Coordination Polymer of Cobalt-Trimesate. S. C. Zacharies, G. Ramon, S. A. Bourne. CrystEngComm, 2022, 24, 2393-2401. https://doi.org/10.1039/D2CE00039C
  • Enclathration by a Halogenated Host: Structures, Polymorphism, Kinetics and Guest Exchange. N. M Sykes, H. Su, S. A. Bourne, L. R. Nassimbeni. Cryst. Growth Des. 2021, 21, 6465-6472.  https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.cgd.1c00911
  • Inclusion of Hydroxycinnamic Acids in Methylated Cyclodextrins : Host-Guest Interactions and Effects on Guest Thermal Stability. L. E Hunt, S. A. Bourne, M. R. Caira. Biomolecules. 2021, 11, 45. https://doi.org/10.3390/biom11010045
  • Tripodal Carboxylate MOFs with Co (II): Transmetallation and Gas Sorption Studies. C. N. Dzesse, E. N. Nfor, S. A. Bourne. Polyhedron, 2020, 189, 114724. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.poly.2020.114724
  • A Performulation co-crystal Screening Case Study:Polymorphic co-crystals of an Imidazopyridazine Antimalarial Drug Lead with the Coformer Succinic Acid. T. J. Noonan, K. Chibale, S. A. Bourne, M. R. Caira. J. Mol. Struct. 2020, 1204, 127561. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.molstruc.2019.127561
  • Cyclometalation of Lanthanum (III) based MOF for Catalytic Hydrogenation of Carbon Dioxide to Formate. P. Tshuma, B. C. E. Makhubela, L. Ohrstrom, S. A. Bourne, N. Chatterjee, I. N. Beas, J. Darkwa, G. Mehlana. RSC Adv, 2020, 10, 3593-3605. https://doi.org/10.1039/C9RA09938G
  • Solvatochromism and Selective Sorption of Volatile Organic Solvents in Pyridylbenzoate Metal-Organic Frameworks. C. A. Ndamyabera, S. C. Zacharias, C. L. Oliver, S. A. Bourne. Chemistry, 2019, 1, 111-125. https://doi.org/10.3390/chemistry1010009
  • Separation and Resolution of Methylcyclohexanones by Enclathration with Deoxycholic Acid. J. S. B. Boudiombo, H. Su, N. Ravenscroft, S. A. Bourne, L. R. Nassimbeni. Cryst. Growth Des. 2019, 19, 3962-3968. https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.cgd.9b00369
  • Synthesis and Crystal Structures of a Copper (II) Dinuclear Complex and Zinc (II) Coordination Polymers as Materials for Efficient Oxidative Desulfurization of Dibenzothiophene. A. C. Tella, A. C. Oladipo, V. O. Adimula, O. A. Ameen, S. A. Bourne, A. S. Ogunlaja. New J. Chem. 2019, 43, 14343-14354. https://doi.org/10.1039/C9NJ01456J
  • Preferential Enclathration of Lutidine Isomers by Diol-Hosts. J. S. B. Boudiombo, H. Su, N. Ravenscroft, S. A. Bourne, E. Weber, L. R. Nassimbeni. J. Mol. Struct. 2019, 1181, 636-644. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.molstruc.2018.12.084
  • Synthesis, Crystal Structure, and Density Functional Theory Study of a Zinc (II) Complex Containing Terpyridine and Pyridine-2,6-dicarboxylic Acid Ligands: Analysis of the Interactions with Amoxicillin. A. C. Tella, J. A. Obaleye, M. D. Olawale, J. M. V. Ngororabanga, A. S. Ogunlaja, S. A. Bourne.  C. R. Chim. 2019, 22, 3-12.  https://doi.org/10.1016/j.crci.2018.11.007
  • Synthesis, Crystal Structure and Desulfurization Properties of Zig-Zag 1D Coordination Polymer of Copper(II) Containing 4-methoxybenzoic Acid Ligand. A. C. Tella, S. O. Owalude, S. J. Olatunji, S. O. Oloyede, A. S. Ogunlaja, S. A. Bourne. J. Sulphur Chem. 2018, 39, 588–606. https://doi.org/10.1080/17415993.2018.1489808
  • Conformational Chiral Polymorphism in Cis-Bis-Triphenylphosphine Complexes of Transition Metals. N. Tshabang, G. P. Makgatle, S. A. Bourne, N. Kann, J. D. Evans. F-X. Coudert, L. Ohrstrom. CrystEngComm. 2018, 20, 5137-5142. https://doi.org/10.1039/C8CE00337H
  • Deconstruction of Crystalline Networks into Underlying Nets: Relevance for Terminology Guidelines and Crystallographic Databases. C. Bonneau, M. O'Keeffe, D. M. Proserpio, V. A. Blatov, S. R. Batten, S. A. Bourne, M. S. Lah, J-G. Eon, S. T. Hyde, S. B. Wiggin, L. Ohrstrom. Cryst. Growth Des. 2018, 18, 3411−3418. https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.cgd.8b00126
  • Control of Crystal Structure Using Temperature and Time. S. C. Zacharias, G. Ramon, S. A. Bourne. Acta. Cryst. B. 2018, 74, 354-361. https://doi.org/10.1107/S2052520618007795
  • Synthesis, Crystal Structures and Luminescence Properties of New Multi-Component co-Crystals of Isostructural Co (II) and Zn (II) Complexes. A. C. Tella, S. O. Owalude, M. F. Omotosa, S. J. Olatunji, A. S. Ogunlaja, L. O. Alimi, O. K. Popoola, S. A. Bourne. J. Mol. Struct. 2018, 1157, 450-456. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.molstruc.2017.12.086
  • Fe(III) Protoporphyrin IX Encapsulated in a Zinc Metal-Organic Framework Shows Dramatically Enhanced Peroxidatic Activity. N. A. Dare, L. Brammer, S.A. Bourne, T. J. Egan. Inorg. Chem. 2018, 57, 1171-1183. https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.inorgchem.7b02612
  • Supramolecular Metallogels Constructed from Carboxylate Gelators. S. C. Zacharias, G. Ramon, S. A. Bourne. Soft Matter. 2018, 14, 4505-4519. https://doi.org/10.1039/C8SM00753E
  • Vapor Sorption and Solvatochromism in a Metal-Organic Framework of an Asymmetric Pyridylcarboxylate. C. N. Dzesse T. E. N. Nfor, S. A. Bourne. Cryst. Growth Des. 2018, 18, 416-423. https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.cgd.7b01417
  • Structural Diversity Observed in Two-dimensional Square Lattice Metal-Organic Frameworks Assembled from Zn(II) and 3-(4-Pyridyl)benzoate. G. Mehlana, C. Wilkinson, C. N. Dzesse T, G. Ramon, S. A. Bourne. Cryst. Growth Des. 2017, 17, 6445-6454. https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.cgd.7b01101
  • Selective Enclathration of Methyl- and Dimethylpiperidines by Fluorenol Hosts. N. M. Sykes, H. Su, Edwin Weber, S. A. Bourne, L. R. Nassimbeni. Cryst. Growth Des. 2017, 17, 819-826. https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.cgd.6b01661
  • Unravelling Chromism in Metal-Organic Framework. G. Mehlana, S. A. Bourne. CrystEngComm, 2017, 19, 4238-4259. https://doi.org/10.1039/C7CE00710H
  • Solvent-free Synthesis, Characterization and Solvent-Vapor Interaction of Zinc (II) and Copper (II) Coordination Polymers containing Nitrogen-donor Ligands. A. C. Tella, G. Mehlana, L. O. Alimi, S. A. Bourne. Z. Anorg. Allg. Chem. 2017, 643, 523–530. https://doi.org/10.1002/zaac.201600460
  • Encapsulation of the Antioxidant R-(+)-a-lipoic Acid in Permethylated alpha- and beta-cyclodextrins: Thermal and X-ray Structural Characterization of the 1:1 Inclusion Complexes. M. R. Caira, S. A. Bourne, B. Mzondo. Molecules, 2017, 22, 866-878. https://doi.org/10.3390/molecules22060866 (Special issue on Cyclodextrin Chemistry). 
  • A 4-fold Interpenetrated Diamondoid Metal-Organic Framework with Large Channels Exhibiting Solvent Sorption Properties and High Iodine Capture. G. Mehlana, G. Ramon, S. A. Bourne. Microporous Mesoporous Mater. 2016, 231, 21-30. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.micromeso.2016.05.016
  • Guest Exchange in Halogenated Host-Guest Compounds: Structures and Kinetics. F. M. A. Noa, S. A. Bourne, H. Su, L. R. Nassimbeni. Cryst. Growth Des. 2016, 16, 1636-1642. https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.cgd.5b01728
  • Inclusion Complexes of 2-methoxy-estradiol with Dimethylated and Permethylated β-cyclodextrins: Models for Cyclodextrin-Steroid Interaction. M. R. Caira, S. A. Bourne, H. Samsodien, V. J. Smith. Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2015, 11, 2616-2630. https://doi.org/10.3762/bjoc.11.281
  • Reversible Guest Removal and Selective Guest Exchange with a Covalent Dinuclear Wheel-​and-​Axle Metallorganic Host Constituted by Half-​Sandwich Ru (II) Wheels Connected by a Linear Diphosphine Axle. A. Bacchi, S. A. Bourne, G. Cantoni, S. A. M. Cavallone, S. Mazza, G. Mehlana, P. Pelagatti, L. Righi. Cryst. Growth Des. 2015, 15, 1876-1888. https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.cgd.5b00059
  • Reversible Thermo- and Mechanochromic Behaviour in a 3D Hydrogen Bonded Discrete Complex. G. Mehlana, C. Wilkinson, G. Ramon, S. A. Bourne. Polyhedron. 2015, 98, 224-229. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.poly.2015.06.016 
  • Halogen Bonding in Host-Guest Compounds: Structures and Kinetics of Enclathration and Desolvation. F. M. A. Noa, S. A. Bourne, L. R. Nassimbeni. Cryst. Growth Des. 2015, 15, 3271-3279. https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.cgd.5b00402