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Katja Heinze is affiliated with Johannes Gutenberg University of Mainz in Germany. Their research contributions focus on the intersection of materials science and chemistry, with significant work in subfields including materials chemistry, organic chemistry, renewable energy, sustainability and the environment, electronic, optical and magnetic materials, and inorganic chemistry.

The scientist's research extensively covers topics such as crystallization and solubility studies, X-ray diffraction in crystallography, lanthanide and transition metal complexes, porphyrin and phthalocyanine chemistry, luminescence and fluorescent materials, magnetism in coordination complexes, and radical photochemical reactions.

Frequent publication venues for their work include:

  • The Cambridge Structural Database
  • Inorganic Chemistry
  • Chemistry - A European Journal
  • Angewandte Chemie International Edition
  • Angewandte Chemie

Katja Heinze has collaborated regularly with several coauthors, including:

  • Christoph Förster
  • Robert Naumann
  • Winald R. Kitzmann
  • Matthias Bauer
  • Ute Resch-Genger

Notable recent publications reflect themes in photophysics, photochemistry, and luminescence processes, such as:

  • Photophysics and photochemistry with Earth-abundant metals - fundamentals and concepts (2020, Chemical Society Reviews)
  • Strongly Red-Emissive Molecular Ruby [Cr(bpmp)2]3+ Surpasses [Ru(bpy)3]2+ (2021, Journal of the American Chemical Society)
  • A Vanadium(III) Complex with Blue and NIR-II Spin-Flip Luminescence in Solution (2020, Journal of the American Chemical Society)
  • Spin-flip luminescence (2022, Photochemical & Photobiological Sciences)
  • Charge-Transfer and Spin-Flip States: Thriving as Complements (2022, Angewandte Chemie International Edition)

Best Publications

  • V2O5 Nanowires with an Intrinsic Peroxidase-Like Activity

    Rute André;Filipe Natálio;Madalena Humanes;Jana Leppin

  • Photophysics and photochemistry with Earth-abundant metals – fundamentals and concepts

    Christoph Förster;Katja Heinze

  • [Cr(ddpd)2]3+: A Molecular, Water‐Soluble, Highly NIR‐Emissive Ruby Analogue

    Sven Otto;Markus Grabolle;Christoph Förster;Christoph Kreitner

  • Ferrocene—Beauty and Function

    Katja Heinze;Heinrich Lang

  • Cooperative Transformations of Small Molecules at a Dinuclear Nickel(II) Site

    Franc Meyer;Elisabeth Kaifer;Peter Kircher;Katja Heinze

  • Deuterated Molecular Ruby with Record Luminescence Quantum Yield.

    Cui Wang;Cui Wang;Sven Otto;Matthias Dorn;Elisabeth Kreidt

  • Electronic Communication in C4‐Bridged Binuclear Complexes with Paramagnetic Bisphosphane Manganese End Groups

    Sohrab Kheradmandan;Katja Heinze;Helmut W. Schmalle;Heinz Berke

  • Understanding and exploiting long-lived near-infrared emission of a molecular ruby

    Sven Otto;Matthias Dorn;Christoph Förster;Matthias Bauer

  • Spin-flip luminescence

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  • Luminescence and Light‐Driven Energy and Electron Transfer from an Exceptionally Long‐Lived Excited State of a Non‐Innocent Chromium(III) Complex

    Steffen Treiling;Cui Wang;Christoph Förster;Florian Reichenauer

  • Main Chain Ferrocenyl Amides from 1‐Aminoferrocene‐1′‐carboxylic Acid

    Katja Heinze;Manuela Schlenker

  • Excited state tuning of bis(tridentate) ruthenium(II) polypyridine chromophores by push-pull effects and bite angle optimization: a comprehensive experimental and theoretical study.

    Aaron Breivogel;Michael Meister;Christoph Förster;Frédéric Laquai

  • Photo-Chromium: Sensitizer for Visible-Light-Induced Oxidative C−H Bond Functionalization—Electron or Energy Transfer?

    Sven Otto;Alexander M. Nauth;Eugenyi Ermilov;Norman Scholz

  • Strongly Red-Emissive Molecular Ruby [Cr(bpmp)2]3+ Surpasses [Ru(bpy)3]2.

    Florian Reichenauer;Cui Wang;Cui Wang;Christoph Forster;Pit Boden

  • A Vanadium(III) Complex with Blue and NIR-II Spin-Flip Luminescence in Solution.

    Matthias Dorn;Jens Kalmbach;Pit Boden;Ayla Päpcke

  • Supramolecular Host–Guest Compounds with Tripod–Metal Templates as Building Blocks at the Corners

    Susanne Mann;Gottfried Huttner;Laszlo Zsolnai;Katja Heinze

  • A Heteroleptic Bis(tridentate)ruthenium(II) Polypyridine Complex with Improved Photophysical Properties and Integrated Functionalizability

    Aaron Breivogel;Christoph Förster;Katja Heinze

  • Conformational Analysis of Chiral Ferrocene–Peptides

    Katja Heinze;Manuela Beckmann

  • Efficient Triplet‐Triplet Annihilation Upconversion Sensitized by a Chromium(III) Complex via an Underexplored Energy Transfer Mechanism

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  • Charge-Transfer and Spin-Flip States: Thriving as Complements.

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  • A Heteroleptic Push-Pull Substituted Iron(II) Bis(tridentate) Complex with Low-Energy Charge-Transfer States

    Andreas K. C. Mengel;Christoph Förster;Aaron Breivogel;Katharina Mack

  • Tuning the metal–metal separation in pyrazolate-based dinuclear complexes by the length of chelating side arms‡

    Franc Meyer;Katja Heinze;Bernhard Nuber;Laszlo Zsolnai

  • Thermo-Chromium: A Contactless Optical Molecular Thermometer.

    Sven Otto;Norman Scholz;Thomas Behnke;Ute Resch-Genger

  • Multielectron Storage and Photo-Induced Electron Transfer in Oligonuclear Complexes Containing Ruthenium(II) Terpyridine and Ferrocene Building Blocks

    Katja Heinze;Klaus Hempel;Manuela Beckmann

Frequent Co-Authors

Gottfried Huttner
Gottfried Huttner Heidelberg University
Laszlo Zsolnai
Laszlo Zsolnai Heidelberg University
Ute Resch-Genger
Ute Resch-Genger Federal Institute For Materials Research and Testing
Stefan Lochbrunner
Stefan Lochbrunner University of Rostock
Franc Meyer
Franc Meyer University of Göttingen
Siegfried R. Waldvogel
Siegfried R. Waldvogel Johannes Gutenberg University of Mainz
Kookheon Char
Kookheon Char Seoul National University
Frédéric Laquai
Frédéric Laquai King Abdullah University of Science and Technology
Heinrich Lang
Heinrich Lang Chemnitz University of Technology
Dieter Schollmeyer
Dieter Schollmeyer Johannes Gutenberg University of Mainz

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