The Department of Chemistry at Nottingham includes an active and flourishing research school, which each year publishes over a hundred papers in the chemical literature. The current research school in Organic Chemistry consists of 13 permanent staff members, three Teaching Fellows, an Experimental Officer, two Demonstrators, 15-20 postdoctoral fellows and senior visitors and over 60 Ph.D. students. Terminals to the main university computer systems are located in some laboratories, and the department has a number of unix workstations for molecular modelling work.
More specialised equipment is associated with each research group.
New laboratories, with all modern facilities, for Bio-organic Chemistry research have also recently been built and are fully occupied. The School of Chemistry has a chemical library, excellent mechanical, electronics and glass-blowing workshops and there is expert technical assistance in the section. The research interests of the Organic Chemistry Staff at Nottingham University cover a broad range of activities. A major area of interest is the discovery and invention of new methods for synthesis, and their application to challenging problems presented by biology, medicine and industry. The links below provide more detailed descriptions of topics currently being studied by the respective staff members .