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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 6700 Mid Infrared spectrometer (soon to have far IR capability) (Contact: Dr Murray Davies)

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

  • Agilent 7890A Gas Chromatograph with 7683B series injector (contact: Dr Dana Roberts)

  • Varian CP-3800 GC coupled to a Varian 1200 L triple quadrupole Mass spectrometer (housed at the AAC: contact: Dr Shane Askew ) (Nb. LC-MS is also possible)

  • Varian 940-LC HPLC (analytical and semi-preparative) with 440-LC fraction collector (contact: Dr Dana Roberts)

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

  • CEM MARS express 5 microwave oven (Contact: Dr. Murray Davies)

  • Varian Saturn 2000-3800 GC-MS (Cairns Campus) (Contact: A/Prof. Michael Liddell)

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