Research Topics
A flavour of the areas encompassed by recent and on-going postgraduate research projects undertaken in the Department of Chemistry here in Durham include:
- Synthetic organic and bioorganic chemistry
- Preparative main group and transition metal chemistry
- Organometallic chemistry
- Structural organic and inorganic chemistry
- Cluster Chemistry
- New synthetic and asymmetric methodology
- Catalysis and high pressure chemistry
- Parallel and high throughput syntheses
- Innovative fluorination methodology
- Synthesis and chemistry of fluorine-containing organic compounds
- Carbohydrate chemistry
- Natural product synthesis
- Macrocyclic and heterocyclic chemistry
- Polymer and materials synthesis and characterisation
- Supramolecular chemistry
- Homogeneous and heterogeneous catalysis
- The chemistry and physics of electronic and photonic materials
- Solution state kinetics and reaction mechanism
- Theoretical and computational chemical physics
- Molecular reaction dynamics
- Nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopy (solution and solid state)
- Solid-state chemistry
- X-Ray crystallography
- Functional materials
- Chemistry of surfaces and interfaces
- Fullerene and carbon nanotube chemistry
- Flow cytometry
- The chemistry of proteins and lipids
For further information please view the individual research profiles of our academic staff.