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Welcome to the Department of Chemistry, Lucknow University, Lucknow, India

Major thrust areas in which Research activities are being actively pursued:

Organic Chemistry

            Chemistry of Natural Product
            Carbohydrate Chemistry
            Bio-organic Chemistry
            Application of multinuclear and two dimensional NMR Spectroscopy
            Synthetic Methodology using new reagents
            Microwave-assisted Organic Synthesis
            Green Chemistry
            Heterocyclic Chemistry
 

Inorganic Chemistry

            Organo-metallic and Coordination Chemistry
            Synthesis and structural aspects of chemistry of Chromium, Molybdenum,
               Tellurium etc. in different oxidation states
            Ion transport mechanism in solids and liquids
            Synthetic and spectroscopic aspects of metallo-organic and organo-matallic
                compounds with biologically relevant N-heterocycles
            Designing and characterisation of Pd(II) and Pt(ll) complexes  
            Bio-Inorganic Chemistry

Physical Chemistry

            Kinetics and mechanism of catalyzed and uncatalysed ligand substitution reactions
            Adsorption of Sugars and Related Polyhydroxy Compounds onto various Surfaces.
            Dielectric & Solvolytic studies on chromophoric solutes in single, protic, aprotic, mixed solvents           
            Ion-ion and ion-solvent interactions.

            Polymer Chemistry and Ion-exchange Studies