Students work within a research group on an individual project supervised by a member of staff.
Research across the spectrum of chemistry is actively pursued. The Department possesses superb facilities for synthetic chemistry, with modern, recently refurbished laboratories, a clean room for biological chemistry, high-field NMR spectrometers and the University of London mass spectrometry facility. The Department also manages the UK Computational Chemistry Facility that provides computing resources and specialist consultancy to some 40 projects in computational chemistry at other UK universities. Details including entry requirements and application procedures are given on below . Commences anytime, but usually 1 October.