Calendar 2001–02

294 Part 5 • Department Profiles and Programmes of Studies (B) Inorganic Chemistry 1. Syntheses, Properties and Structures of Organometallic Compounds of Main Groups Transition and Rare Earth Metals 2. Metalloporphyrin and Biometallic Complexes 3. Syntheses and Properties of Metallo-phthalocyanines and Naphthalocyanines 4. Use of Organometallics in Organic Synthesis 5. Catalytic Properties of Early Transition and Rare Earth Metal Compounds 6. Metallacarboranes and Carboranes 7. Inorganic Polymer 8. Syntheses and Structures of Transition Metal Complexes as Models to the Active Site of Metalloenzymes (C) Organic Chemistry 1. Synthesis and Property Investigations of Macromolecules 2. New Synthetic Methodologies 3. Nonlinear Optical Materials 4. Total Synthesis of Natural Molecules and Analogues with Pharmaceutical Implications 5. Asymmetric Catalysis 6. Carbohydrate Chemistry 7. Synthesis of Non-natural Molecules with Theoretical and Practical Importance 8. Use of Organoboron and Organosilicon Compounds in Organic Synthesis 9. Asymmetric Synthesis 10. Green Chemistry (D) Physical Chemistry 1. Modifications of Semiconductors and Related Materials 2. Gas Chromatographic Studies of Molecules 3. Molecular Orbital Studies of Molecules and Ions 4. Intelligent Gels, Nanoparticles and Dynamics of Macromolecules in Solution 5. Structures and Dynamics of Nucleic Acids and Peptides 6. Molecular Dynamics 7. Development of Mass Spectrometry Instrumentation and Applications in the Study of Biomolecules (E) X-ray Crystallography 1. Crystal Engineering 2. Inclusion Chemistry 3. Coordination Chemistry (F) Environmental Science 1. Air Pollution Monitoring 2. Degradation of Environmental Pollutants MPhil Programme Fields of Specialization Same as those for the PhD programme.