Chemistry Research at JCU

The discipline of Chemistry at JCU has a strong commitment and tradition in research and research training, and is well equipped with modern facilities which support a number of active research programs.

These include -

• Marine natural products and chemical ecology;

• Synthetic and natural molecules of pharmaceutical interest;

• Supramolecular chemistry, molecular recognition;

• Electron and energy transfer in large polymetallic assemblies;

• Multinuclear metal complexes as sequence- and structure-selective binding agents for nucleic acids;

• Magnetic interactions in biologically important molecules;

• Environmental geochemistry of trace elements in sediments;

• Electroanalytical chemistry;

• Emission of carbon compounds in the rain forest canopy.

• Solar chemistry and organic photochemistry

• Catalytic studies of key organic transformations

Students interested in undertaking Honours in chemistry can download the Honours Booklet here.

The Chemistry discipline houses the following research infrastructure.

• Varian Mercury 300 MHz Nuclear Magnetic Resonance spectrometer (Contact: Assoc. Prof. Bruce Bowden),

• Bruker SMART 1000 CCD single crystal X-ray diffractomer that is housed within the Advanced Analytical Centre. (Contact : Dr Murray Davies )

• Nicolet Nexus 670/870 Infrared spectrometer (Contact: Dr Murray Davies)

• JEOL JES-TE200 EPR spectrometer (continuous wave X-band) (Contact: Dr Brian McCool)

• HP5890 Gas Chromatograph (contact: Dr Michael Ridd)

• Varian CP-3800 GC coupled to a Varian 1200 L triple quadrupole Mass spectrometer (contact: Dr Michael Ridd) (Nb. LC-MS is also possible)

• Cary 5E UV/vis/NIR spectrometer (contact: Prof. Richard.Keene)

• CEM MARS express 5 microwave oven (Contact: Prof. George Meehan)

At the end of 2008 we will be upgrading our HPLC and GC equipment.