Research Arears

Research activities in the following areas are carried  out in the Department of Chemistry:

  • Synthetic Medicinal chemistry

  • Isolation and characterizations of active components responsible for Physiological  Activities from some commonly used medicinal Plants

  • Study of the Metal-metal interaction of covalently linked transition metals and their photochemical activity

  • Environmental chemistry

  • Photochemistry

  • Chemical sensing

  • Reactive oxygen species of atmospheric interests

  • Designing and synthesis of luminescent probes

  • Development of new spectrophotometric methods for thr determination of various icons at travel level

  • Production of Coconut shell based Charcoal and Enhancement of its Adsorptive properties

  • Development of a new force field for computational chemistry using Kirkwood-Buff theory for solutions

  • Study of the colligative properties at higher concentration

  • Stability of bio-molecules in solvent-co solvent media

  • Interaction of Ca(II), Mg(II) and Sr(II) with Metallo-Chromic Indicators in Binary solvent systems

  • Dynamics and Magnetic properties of transition metal clusters

  • Use of rice hulls for the production of pure silicon

  • Desalination of seawater for drinking and cleaning purposes

  • Structural modeling of macromolecules

  • Differential thermal analysis of soils and minerals


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