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Jochen Mattay is affiliated with Bielefeld University in Germany. Their research spans several interconnected fields including Materials Science, Energy, and Chemistry, with specific focus areas in Materials Chemistry, Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment, Molecular Biology, Spectroscopy, and Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience.

The scientist's work frequently addresses topics such as Photochromic and Fluorescence Chemistry, DNA and Nucleic Acid Chemistry, Porphyrin and Phthalocyanine Chemistry, Photoreceptor and Optogenetics Research, CO2 Reduction Techniques and Catalysts, Advanced Photocatalysis Techniques, and Electrocatalysts for Energy Conversion.

Their recent publications include:

  • "photoinduced electron transfer," 2020, Catalysis from A to Z
  • "Reversible photoswitching of the DNA-binding properties of styrylquinolizinium derivatives through photochromic [2 + 2] cycloaddition and cycloreversion," 2020, Beilstein Journal of Organic Chemistry
  • "Photocontrolled DNA minor groove interactions of imidazole/pyrrole polyamides," 2020, Beilstein Journal of Organic Chemistry
  • "Unprotected Galactosamine as a Dynamic Key for a Cyclochiral Lock," 2021, Journal of the American Society for Mass Spectrometry

Mattay's frequent coauthors include:

  • Heiko Ihmels
  • Norbert Sewald
  • Sarah Kölsch
  • Brian O. Patrick
  • Sabrina Müller

Major publication venues for Mattay's work are:

  • Beilstein Journal of Organic Chemistry
  • Catalysis from A to Z
  • Journal of the American Society for Mass Spectrometry

Best Publications

  • Self‐Assembly of 2,8,14,20‐Tetraisobutyl‐5,11,17,23‐tetrahydroxyresorc[4]arene

    Thorsten Gerkensmeier;Waldemar Iwanek;Ceno Agena;Roland Fröhlich

  • Charge Transfer and Radical Ions in Photochemistry

    Jochen Mattay

  • Photocycloadditions: control by energy and electron transfer

    F Muller;Jochen Mattay

  • Green photochemistry: Production of fine chemicals with sunlight*

    Michael Oelgemöller;Christian Jung;Jochen Mattay

  • Letter: The Use of 2-[(2E)-3-(4-Tert-Butylphenyl)-2-Methylprop-2-Enylidene]Malononitrile as a Matrix for Matrix-Assisted Laser Desorption/Ionization Mass Spectrometry:

    Lars Ulmer;Jochen Mattay;H. Gregorio Torres-Garcia;Heinrich Luftmann

  • Photoreactions of biacetyl, benzophenone, and benzil with electron-rich alkenes

    Joachim Gersdorf;Jochen Mattay;Helmut Goerner

  • Synthetic Organic Photochemistry

    Axel G. Griesbeck;Jochen Mattay

  • Photochemistry of 1,2-diphenyl-2,2-dimethyl-propanone-1 in micellar solutions. Cage effects, isotope effects and magnetic field effects.

    Nicholas J. Turro;Jochen Mattay

  • Interfacial electrostatics guiding the crystallization of CaCO3 underneath monolayers of calixarenes and resorcarenes

    Dirk Volkmer;Marc Fricke;Ceno Agena;Jochen Mattay

  • Photoinduced Electron Transfer in Organic Synthesis

    Jochen Mattay

  • Spiropyrans as molecular optical switches

    Britta Seefeldt;Robert Kasper;Mirco Beining;Jochen Mattay

  • Supramolecular Chemistry at the Single-Molecule Level†

    Rainer Eckel;Robert Ros;Björn Decker;Jochen Mattay

  • Selectivity and charge transfer in photoreactions of arenes with olefins: 2, Mode of cycloaddition

    Jochen Mattay

  • Green photochemistry: the solar-chemical ‘Photo–Friedel–Crafts acylation’ of quinones

    Christian Schiel;Michael Oelgemöller;Jürgen Ortner;Jochen Mattay

  • Exohedral functionalization of [60]fullerene by [3+2] cycloadditions: Syntheses and chemical properties of triazolino-[60]fullerenes and 1,2-(3,4-dihydro-2H-pyrrolo)-[60]fullerenes

    Johannes Averdung;Jochen Mattay

  • Aza-dihydro[60]fullerene in the gas phase. A mass-spectrometric and quantumchemical study

    Johannes Averdung;Heinrich Luftmann;Ingo Schlachter;Jochen Mattay

  • Green photochemistry: solar photooxygenations with medium concentrated sunlight

    Michael Oelgemöller;Christian Jung;Jürgen Ortner;Jochen Mattay

  • Green photochemistry: solar-chemical synthesis of Juglone with medium concentrated sunlight

    Michael Oelgemöller;Niall Healy;Lamark de Oliveira;Christian Jung

  • Contact and solvent-separated radical ion pairs in organic photochemistry

    Jochen Mattay;Martin Vondenhof

  • A self-assembling metallosupramolecular cage based on cavitand–terpyridine subunits

    Tobias Schröder;Ralf Brodbeck;Matthias C. Letzel;Andreas Mix

  • Photoinduced electron transfer

    J. Mattay

Frequent Co-Authors

Hans-Georg Stammler
Hans-Georg Stammler Bielefeld University
Michael Oelgemöller
Michael Oelgemöller James Cook University
Beate Neumann
Beate Neumann Bielefeld University
Steen Steenken
Steen Steenken Max Planck Society
Axel G. Griesbeck
Axel G. Griesbeck University of Cologne
Roland Fröhlich
Roland Fröhlich University of Münster
Wolfgang W. Schoeller
Wolfgang W. Schoeller University of California, Riverside
Yoshihisa Inoue
Yoshihisa Inoue Osaka University
Gerhard Raabe
Gerhard Raabe RWTH Aachen University
Maurizio Fagnoni
Maurizio Fagnoni University of Pavia

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