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Research Groups

The School of Chemistry has 3 Sections - Inorganic and Materials; Organic and Biological; and Physical and Theoretical. Interdisciplinary collaborative research is often carried out by staff in two or more of the Sections. There are also strong interactions with other Departments including Biochemistry, Physics, Earth Sciences and the Medical School as well as with scientists in industry and universities worldwide. Selected major themes are highlighted below; further details are available from the School of Chemistry website.

Inorganic and Materials Section

Organometallic and coordination chemistry including catalysis and synthesis and reactivity of organo-transition metal complexes; structural chemistry and crystal engineering including computational methods and X-ray crystallography; organised matter and materials chemistry including bioinorganic chemistry, nanoscale and composite materials; chemistry of the p-block elements including synthesis and applications to polymeric and solid state materials.

Organic and Biological Section

Organic synthesis including methodology, total synthesis of natural products, organometallic chemistry, catalysis; bio-organic chemistry including biosynthesis, enzyme mechanisms, protein structure and function (NMR, MS and X-ray); supramolecular and physical organic chemistry including reaction mechanism and the design of novel receptors, materials and polymers; biogeochemistry and chemometrics including analytical and environmental chemistry, GC-MS, online reaction monitoring and forensic investigations.

Physical and Theoretical Section

Computational chemistry including modelling inorganic and enzyme catalysed reactions; laser chemistry including studies on single particles, bimolecular collisions and molecular complexes; atmospheric chemistry including analysis, monitoring, spectroscopy and photochemistry; growth of diamonds and other thin film materials including diamond-coated fibres and electrochemical applications; colloids and interface science including gels, surfactants, dynamics of liquid aerosols droplets and electrochemistry. There is a strong link with the Bristol Colloid Centre.