Calendar 2002–03

Postgraduate Studies •Science 307 Division of Chemistry PhD Prog ramme Fields of Sp ecialization (A) Analytical Chemistry 1. Trace Analysis Using Atom- absor ptio n, UV-VIS Abso rptio n, Gas- chr omato graph y, High-p erformance Liqu id Ch romatography, and PolarographicMethods 2. X-ray Fluorescence MethodsinChemical Analysis 3. SurfaceCharacterizationsofElectronic Packaging Materials 4. Developmentof NewSurface Analysis Techniques (B) Inorganic Chemistry 1. Syntheses, Propertiesand StructuresofOrganometallicCompounds of Main Group,Transition and Rare EarthMetals 2. MetalloporphyrinsandBiometallicComplexes 3. Synthesesand PropertiesofMetallo-phthalocyaninesand Naphthalocyanines 4. Useof Organometallic Reagents inOrganic Synthesis 5. Catalytic Propertiesof EarlyTransition and Rare EarthMetal Compounds 6. MetallacarboranesandCarboranes 7. InorganicPolymers 8. Synthesesand Structures of Transition Metal ComplexesasModels of the ActiveSiteof Metalloenzymes (C) Organic Chemistry 1. Synthesis and PropertyInvestigations ofMacromolecules 2. NewSynthetic Methodologies 3. NonlinearOptical Materials 4. Total Synthesis of Natural Molecules and Analogues with Pharmaceutical Implications 5. AsymmetricCatalysis 6. CarbohydrateChemistry 7. SynthesisofNon-naturalMoleculeswithTheoretical andPracticalImportance 8. Use ofOrganoboron andOrganosilicon CompoundsinOrganicSynthesis 9. AsymmetricSynthesis 10. GreenChemistry (D) Physical Chemistry 1. Modifications of Semiconductors and Related Materials 2. GasChromatographicStudies of Molecules 3. Molecular OrbitalStudiesof Molecules and Ions 4. IntelligentGels,Nanoparticlesand Dynamics ofMacromoleculesin Solution 5. Structures and Dynamics of Nucleic Acidsand Peptides 6. MolecularDynamics 7. DevelopmentofMassSpectrometry Instrumentation andApplicationsin the Study ofBiomolecules (E) X-ray Crystallography 1. CrystalEngineering 2. InclusionChemistry 3. CoordinationChemistry