Research Activities

The Department of chemistry came into existence in the year 1971 and over a period of time, it has emerged as one of the premier Departments not only of the university, but has also acquired prestigious status even at National level owing to its academic and research records. The varied courses offered by this department have made the students resourceful to get placed into different educational and industrial sectors. The research activities of the Department embrace versatility and focus on Synthetic organic chemistry, Supra-molecular chemistry, Structural inorganic chemistry, Drug design and discovery, Green Chemistry, Catalysis,Material science, Electrochemistry, Chemistry of surfactants, oils and fats, Theoretical chemistry, Thermodynamic studies, biophysical chemistry, structural biology and Analytical chemistry. The faculty of the Department is involved in various research projects funded by CSIR, UGC, DAE, SERB-DST and DBT etc. The contribution of the Department has been recognised both nationally and internationally and the faculty has been awarded FNASc, CRSI gold, silver and bronze medals, Bhagya Tara award, Prof. M.S. Wadia award, Brainpool fellow award, Coastal Chemical Society award, Thompson Reuter Research, Excellence India Citation Award, Commonwealth Academic Fellowship award, DAAD, JSPS fellowship, Humboldt fellowship and FASc.
The Department has been adopted by the UGC under its Special Assistance Programme (SAP) and by DST under its programme for improvement of Science and Technology (FIST). State of the art instruments like NMR, X-ray diffractometer, HRMS, UV, Flourescence and Atomic absorption spectrometer, HPLC, DLS, peptide synthesizer, physiosorption, impedance analyser, tensiometer, polarizing microscope, FTIR-ATR, UV-Visible NIR, DSC, Polarograph etc. are available for research and teaching. The department has access to online journals from RSC, ACS, Taylor and Francis, Kluwer incorporations etc. Several faculty members have exposure to foreign research laboratories in the form of post-doctoral and visiting scientist fellowship and are fellows of academic bodies of national/international repute. The accomplishments of this department are specially attributed to the collaborative efforts of the teaching faculty, research students and the non-teaching staff of the department.