Our strong academic staff have close links with industry and are actively engaged in internationally competitive collaborative research across the full spectrum of modern chemistry.
Opportunities exist to study for a PhD in all of the research areas listed below.
Physical Chemistry Molecular beams, laser ionisation, radiation chemistry, reaction dynamics, surface reactions Structural Chemistry Protein and oligonucleotide crystallography, development of methodology - especially the use of synchrotron radiation. A new group has been formed in this important new area led by Professor J Sutherland Organic Chemistry New organic synthesis including natural product and asynmetric synthesis, biosynthesis, reaction mechanisms, reactivity of electronically excited states, spectroscopy, mass spectroscopy, gas chromatography, pulse radiolysis. Computational Chemistry Computer modelling of molecular properties, structure and reactivity, applications to biological and solid-state problems, use of molecular graphics, parallel and vector computers.