History
With the progress of time, the Department of Chemistry M Sc Organic Chemistry course commenced from the year 2005-2006 by the able guidance of Dr .Rev.Theresia Cherian, Principal of the college and in the supervision of Mrs. A V Subbayamma, Head of the Deparment of UG Chemistry
It has experienced a remarkable development and has grown into one of the topmost national teaching and research centers in Chemistry. As a pioneer of academic deliberation and research activity, the department has greatly contributed to produce talents who are leading the national and global scenario.. Teaching and research in Chemistry at our department was initiated by Dr.Sr.Showrilu, Dr.CA.Jyothirmayee, Dr.M.Rama.
Our department has a long tradition of carrying out high-quality research in several areas of Chemistry. Outstanding contributions have been made in the fields of Natural Product Chemistry, Organic Synthesis, Heterocyclic Chemistry, Coordination Chemistry, Electrochemistry, Colloid and Surface Chemistry, Quantum Chemistry, Environmental Chemistry and Analytical Chemistry. In addition, emphasis is being given to several frontiers of chemistry like Organometallic Chemistry, Catalysis, Synthetic Methodology, Selective Bond Activation, Drug Development from Natural Products, Green Chemistry, Surfactant Chemistry, Fabrication of Organic and Inorganic Materials, Organic Electronics, Photochemistry, Carbohydrate Chemistry.
In recognition of the contributions made by the department towards research, the University Grants Commission selected it to operate a Special Assistance Program on DST-Water program and had successfully completed the project.
Several theory groups of the department have now the state-of-the-art computational facilities. Internet facilities are available all over the Department and its upgradation to ultrafast optical fiber networking system is also completed. The Department is quite well-equipped with several sophisticated instruments for research. These include Measurement, UV-vis Spectrophotometer (Hltachi), HPLC (Shimadzu), Polarimeter (Perkin Elmer), Colorimeters, High Vaccum Ovens, Isolated chambers, milliQ water system and many others.
From the academic session 2005-2007, the Department has introduced a Semester System with a major modification in the M. Sc. curriculum and examination system. New courses like Modern Spectroscopic techniques, Nano-Chemistry, Advanced Synthetic strategies, Green Chemistry, Molecular Magnetism, Computational Chemistry, Statistical and Numerical methods, Bio-Inorganic, Bio-Organic, Bio-Physical and Bio-Analytical Chemistry have been introduced, along with the project works and seminar presentations.
Our M. Sc. students are performing excellently well in national competitive examinations such as NET (UGC-CSIR) and GATE (IIT). Some are also qualifying the GRE regularly to join the Ph. D. programs abroad every year
Our department has also adopted the UGC norms for the Ph. D. registration of the Research Scholars by introducing a one semester course work. International symposiums were organized in 2019 and one National Symposium has been organized in 2015.
A number of books and a large number of scientific papers (> 100 per year) are published in the international journals of European journal of Biomedical andPharmaseutical sciences and Nature Publishing Groups, American Physical Society, American Chemical Society, Wiley, Royal Society of Chemistry, Science Direct etc. each year.
The dept follows the university syllabus with regular revisions adding job oriented topics like Chromatographic techniques, Micelles, organo metallics etc.,
Objectives
- To promote and motivate the students for their career, placements, higher studies.
- To have righteous responsibility towards our country.
- To build a better environment.
- To implement good health and safety management practices.
- To have a fundamental knowledge on Human welfares.
- To motivate all the sections of the society to adopt environment friendly methodologies.
- The staff and students meet once in a month in the Kekule club to discuss the recent trends and advances in chemistry to provide Research innovatives.
- In the beginning of the year the department plan for a theme for the year and based on that, plan of action is executed.