Calendar 2006–07

286 Part 3 • Department Profiles and Programmes of Studies Division of Chemistry PhD Programme Fields of Specialization (A) Analytical Chemistry 1. Trace Analysis Using Atom-absorption, UV-VIS Absorption, Gas- chromatography, High-performance Liquid Chromatography, and Polarographic Methods 2. X-ray Fluorescence Methods in Chemical Analysis 3. Surface Characterizations of Electronic Packaging Materials 4. Development of New Surface Analysis Techniques (B) Inorganic Chemistry 1. Syntheses, Properties and Structures of Organometallic Compounds of Main Group, Transition and Rare Earth Metals 2. Metalloporphyrins Chemistry in Carbon-carbon and Carbon-hydrogen Bond Activation 3. Sandwich-type Phthalocyaninato and Porphyrinato Rare Earth Complexes 4. Use of Organometallic Reagents in Organic Synthesis 5. Catalytic Properties of Early Transition and Rare Earth Metal Compounds 6. Metallacarboranes and Carboranes 7. Inorganic Polymers 8. Syntheses and Structures of Transition Metal Complexes as Models of the Active Site of Metalloenzymes (C) Organic Chemistry 1. Synthesis and Property Investigations of Macromolecules 2. New Synthetic Methodologies 3. Functional Materials Based on Tetrapyrrole Derivatives 4. Development of Phthalocyanine-based Photosensitizers for Photodynamic Therapy 5. Total Synthesis of Natural Molecules and Analogues with Pharmaceutical Implications 6. Asymmetric Catalysis 7. Carbohydrate Chemistry 8. Synthesis of Non-natural Molecules with Theoretical and Practical Importance 9. Use of Organoboron and Organosilicon Compounds in Organic Synthesis 10. Asymmetric Synthesis 11. 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