Red light, greener #chemistry: Mateos group of #univie, in collaboration with University of Ferrara, shows that adding selenium to proven organic scaffolds creates metal‑free photocatalysts that work across the visible for cleaner, scalable reactions. Read more: chemie.univie.ac.at/en/artikel/h...

Our first adventure in low-energy photoredox catalysis is now out in @jacs.acspublications.org !🚨 We demonstrate that replacing lighter chalcogens with selenium in established organic photocatalysts enables photocatalysis with lower-energy light. ⬇️ Check it out: available open access!⬇️

Selenoxanthylium Salts─Organic Photocatalysts for Low-Energy Photoredox Catalysis

Abstract. The design of low energy organic photoredox catalysts relies predominantly on π-extended frameworks. Incorporation of selenium into the xanthyliu

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Bench-stable selenium salts strike again, now in low-energy photoredox catalysis! chemrxiv.org/doi/full/10.... Our latest ChemRxiv introduces selenoxanthylium salts as red-light-absorbing organic photocatalysts. The work translates transition-metal design into the organic photocatalysis arena.

After >3 years on the making, we are very excited to introduce Ferrioxalate Photocatalysis in a work published today in @science.org : science.org/doi/10.1126/... A thread below (1/5) 👇

Ferrioxalate photocatalysis: A multitasking platform for reductive iron catalysis

Iron’s abundance motivates its use in sustainable catalyst systems that also offer complementary reactivity manifolds compared to precious metals. However, the challenging reduction of benchmark iron ...

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After visiting the Christmas markets of Vienna (and forgetting the routine group picture), we celebrated the end of the year with a laser tag session, finishing 2025 on a high note. Happy holidays to everyone!🎄🌟

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Proud to share our manuscript: "How small molecules stabilize oligomers of a phase-separating disordered protein" www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... by Jiaqi Zhu and Tommy Sisk, in collaboration with @borjaml.bsky.social , Stase Bielskute-Garcia & @xsalvatella1.bsky.social

One year of the Mateos Group in Vienna – time to update the group picture! Grateful for the energy, talent, and passion of this growing team.

A great way to celebrate our first year in Vienna @univie.ac.at! Our Se(III) radical project has been funded by the @fwf-at.bsky.social Austrian Science Fund (FWF)!! 🚨PhD & postdoc calls coming soon🚨 Stay tuned! mateoslab.com

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Great news from the 5th DoSChem Symposium! Our PhD student Kirill Zhiliaev received the Best Talk Award - well done! 👏

🔥Ever heard of Se(III) radicals? 🔥 Our first paper is out in @angewandtechemie.bsky.social ! Bench-stable cationic selenuranes: 1️⃣ Minimal radical trication X-ray structure 2️⃣ Scalable to >17 g 3️⃣ Useful as group-transfer reagents 🔓 onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

Plastic depolymerization and carbon capture in one paper - the aminolyzed PET shows surprisingly high thermal stability which led us to investigate for carbon dioxide capture and DAC. The material is scalable and the chemistry is robust. www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Repurposing polyethylene terephthalate plastic waste to capture carbon dioxide

A scalable chemical upcycling of PET waste into an efficient, durable, and selective CO2 sorbent has been achieved.

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Just in time! ⏰ Before some of us head to the beach, a new toy arrives at the lab. Ready for some (radical) fun!

🎉Honored and happy to receive the XVII SusChem Young Researcher Award in the Investiga category.🎉 Thank you to everyone who made it possible, and congratulations to the other awardees! JM #PremiosSusChem @univie.ac.at www.suschem-es.org/detalle_noti...

Happy to share that Javier has been awarded the 2025 RSEQ “Young Researchers” Prize (Postdoctoral category). We are grateful to the Governing Board for this recognition, which supports our work in organic synthesis and catalysis at @univie.ac.at rseq.org/concesion-de...

Concesión de los Premios RSEQ 2025 – RSEQ

Concedidos los Premios de la Real Sociedad Española de Química en su edición 2025.

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If you wonder about how to harness innate excited-state reactivity in TM photocatalysis to design new synthetic methods, you can find some guidelines and a rationalization attending to orbitals in this Perspective, just published in ACSCatalysis @acs.org: pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/... (1/3)

Catalysis in the Excited State: Bringing Innate Transition Metal Photochemistry into Play

Transition metal catalysis is an indispensable tool for organic synthesis that has been harnessed, modulated, and perfected for many decades by careful selection of metal centers and ligands, giving r...

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🚨 PhD Opportunity Alert! Repost appreciated!🔁 A fully funded PhD position is available in the Mateos Group at the University of Vienna! 🔹 Up to 4y of funding 🔹 Application deadline: April 21, 2025 👉 More info: doschem.univie.ac.at/application/... #PhDPosition #Chemistry #Catalysis (1/4)

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The new labs are officially inaugurated! Arturo and Kirill did an excellent job organizing all the glassware into drawers and cupboards. ⚗️🧪 Precision and teamwork at their best!

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Two new achievements unlocked! ✅✅ The Mateos Group's refurbished labs are ready, and we are moving in on Monday! Huge thanks to everyone who made it possible. And… we are now also here!! Stay tuned for our latest news. #NewLab