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Department Of Chemistry
Research Centres
- Centre for Bioactive Chemistry
- Centre for Polymer & Soft Matter Research
- Centre for Sustainable Chemical Processes
- Durham Centre for Bioimaging Technology (DCBT)
Research Groups
- Biological Chemistry
- Biologically Active Compounds
- Catalysts
- Diffraction methods
- Electrochemistry:
- Materials: Synthesis and Structure
- Molecular dynamics
- New materials
- Optical and Molecular Electronics
- Photochemistry
- Polymers
- Reaction mechanism studies
- Soft Matter, Surfaces and Interfaces
- Spectroscopy
- Surface characterisation
- Sustainable Chemistry and Catalysis
- Synthetic Methodology
- The solid state
- Theory and Dynamics
Research Expertise
- Amperometry
- Anti-hypertensive compounds
- Anti-inflammatory drugs
- Asymmetric synthesis
- Biosynthesis of polypeptides
- Boron clusters and carboranes
- Chiral synthesis
- Conjugation of radiolabelled metals to tumour targeting moieties
- Crystalline charge-transfer complexes
- Crystalline organic, inorganic and organometallic systems
- Electron spectroscopies
- Fluorinated anti-virals and blockers
- Gene therapy
- Heterogeneous systems including catalysts
- High throughput synthesis
- Impedance
- Interactions and intermolecular forces
- Ionically and/or electronically conducting polymers
- Kinetics in solution
- Labelling methods
- Luminescence spectroscopy
- NLO materials
- Organoboron synthesis
- Organometallic chemistry
- Organopalladium mediated transformations
- Peptide and protein chemistry
- Polymers
- Polymers of novel topology
- Potentiometry
- Quantum mechanics of complexes and clusters
- Ring opening metathesis polymerisations (ROMP)
- Scanning electrochemical microscopy
- Scanning Kelvin probe microscopy
- Selective fluorination methods
- Semi-conductors, alloys, polymer films and sensors
- Single crystal and powder diffraction
- Solution- and solid-state NMR
- Stereospecific routes to alkaloids
- Theory of liquids, solids and liquid crystals
- Ziegler-Natta catalysts
Research Facilities
- Vacuum lines, spectroscopic and analytical instruments for
- Synthesis and characterisation of novel compounds and materials
- XPS, SIMS, ISS, AES, LEED, FT-IR, UV, atomic force microscopy
- Ion Beam Analysis: RBS, ERDA, 3He-NRA
- Solid and solution state multinuclear magnetic resonance spectrometers,
- ESR
- Single Crystal and Powder X-Ray diffraction under ambient and
- Non-ambient conditions (10K-1500K, high pressure, laser-irradiated, etc)
- Molecular graphics laboratory for modelling studies
- Temperature jump instrument for measurements in the microsecond range
- High pressure reaction laboratory with a full range of control and
- Measuring instrumentation
- Gamma radiation source
- Analysis and characterisation of organic materials including HPLC,
- GC-MS, ES-MS and elemental analysis
- FTIR and UV spectrometers
- Small angle X-ray scattering, X-ray reflectometry, neutron reflectometry
- Light scattering, differential scanning calorimetry, thermogravimetry
- Ns-Excimer pumped dye laser, flash photolysis, time-resolved
- Luminescence
- Low temperature (77K)absorption, emission and transient spectroscopy
- Parallel and combinatorial solution and solid phase synthesisers
Staff
Adjunct Lecturer
Academic Staff
- Prof. John S.O. Evans
- Dr DC Apperley
- Prof. Jas Pal S. Badyal
- Prof. Colin D. Bain
- Dr A Batsanov
- Prof. Ian Baxendale
- Dr Simon Beaumont
- Prof. Andrew Beeby
- Prof. Martin R. Bryce
- Prof. Neil R. Cameron
- Dr David Carty
- Dr Steven Cobb
- Prof. Karl S. Coleman
- Dr Aileen Congreve
- Dr Sharon J. Cooper
- Dr Philip W. Dyer
- Dr Sandra Engelskirchen
- Dr Ivana Evans
- Dr Mark A. Fox
- Dr Corinna Hess
- Dr Paul Hodgkinson
- Dr David R.W. Hodgson
- Prof. Judith A. K. Howard
- Dr Andrew K. Hughes
- Dr Lian Hutchings
- Prof. Jeremy M. Hutson
- Dr Ritu Kataky
- Dr Alan Kenwright
- Dr Ezat Khosravi
- Prof. Paul J. Low
- Dr Mark Miller
- Dr Victoria Money
- Dr Jackie A. Mosely
- Dr AnnMarie C. O'Donoghue
- Dr Lars-Olof Palsson
- Prof. David Parker
- Dr Ehmke Pohl
- Prof. Kosmas Prassides
- Prof. Nigel Robinson
- Dr John M. Sanderson
- Prof. Graham Sandford
- Dr Jonathan Sellars
- Prof. Jonathan W. Steed
- Prof. Patrick G. Steel
- Dr Richard Thompson
- Prof. David J. Tozer
- Dr Jan R.R. Verlet
- Prof. Andy Whiting
- Prof. J.A. Gareth Williams
- Prof. Mark R. Wilson
- Dr Eckart Wrede
Administrative Staff
Emeritus Staff
- Prof. Richard D. Chambers
- Dr Michael Crampton
- Dr Keith B. Dillon
- Prof. W. James Feast
- Prof. Robin Harris
- Prof. Ken Wade
Research Staff
- Miss Serena Agostini
- Dr Reduwan Billah
- Dr Alex Borgoo
- Dr Daniel Brue
- Dr Stephen Butler
- Dr Martin Cann
- Dr F Chami
- Dr O Chetina
- Mr Christopher Coxon
- Dr I Cummins
- Dr Samantha Dainty
- Dr Krishna Kumar Damodaran
- Dr Ross Davidson
- Dr Lianzhong Deng
- Dr Paul Denny
- Dr Martin Dracinsky
- Dr Ahmed Eissa-mohamed
- Dr Nicholas Evans
- Dr Stepan Fenyk
- Dr Ilya Frantsuzov
- Miss Janet French
- Dr Hiroki Fujiwara
- Dr Alexander Gehre
- Dr Josef Gluyas
- Dr Maykel Gonzalez-martinez
- Dr Morten Groftehauge
- Mr Murat Gulcur
- Dr Sarah Hehir
- Mr Michael Hilfer
- Dr Lawrence Hill
- Dr David Hoyle
- Dr Paul Hunt
- Mr David Johnson
- Dr Luke Judd
- Dr A Kirby
- Mr Gene Koch
- Dr Ulrich Krohn
- Mr Edward Latter
- Dr Catherine Le-sueur
- Dr Chao Leu
- Dr Li Li
- Dr Kaiqiang Liu
- Mr Jesse Lutz
- Dr Daniel Maltman
- Dr Victoria Maltman
- Prof George McBane
- Dr Emma McCabe
- Mr Brian McMahon
- Dr Anurag Mishra
- Dr CE Nicholson
- Dr Deenah Osman
- Dr R Pal
- Dr Michael Peach
- Dr Rafael Pernil
- Dr MR Probert
- Dr Alexandrea Probert
- Prof Stefan Przyborski
- Dr Thomas Rodgers
- Dr Masafumi Sakata
- Dr Jose Santos
- Dr Philip Schauer
- Dr WC Schofield
- Dr PK Senanayake
- Dr Gary Sharples
- Dr M Skipsey
- Dr. FMD Tholozan
- Dr Paul Thornton
- Dr Liana Vella-zarb
- Dr Daniel Welsh
- Dr Victoria Whittle
- Dr L Yang
- Dr Erdem Yavuz
- Dr Paul Yeo
- Dr DS Yufit
Teaching Fellows
Secretarial Staff
Technical Staff
- Mr K Appleby
- Mr BT Barker
- Mr A Baxter
- Mr Aaron Brown
- Mr WD Carswell
- Mr John Chapplow
- Mr J Clarkson
- Mr I Edwards
- Mr Omer Ekinoglu
- Miss Victoria Elder
- Mr Alan Harland
- Mrs CF Heffernan
- Mr PA Hofmann
- Mr RN Holmes
- Mr D Hunter
- Mr LW Lauchlan
- Miss J Magee
- Mr AF Markwell
- Mr Antony Newman
- Mr G Oswald
- Dr D Parker
- Mr M Richardson
- Ms HJ Riggs
- Mr PD Rochester
- Miss E Smart
- Mr G Southern
- Mr Peter Stokes
- Ms EM Wood
Lab Attendants
- Mrs M Cairns
- Mrs J Charlton
- Miss Claire Fairish
- Mrs Sandra Lauchlan
- Mrs Jean Parnaby
- Mrs Alison Reid
- Ms AL Smith
- Mrs VO Watson