School
of Chemistry comprises four departments - Organic, Inorganic,
Physical and Natural Products. Having a humble beginning
as the Department of Chemistry in 1966, it has bloomed into
a full-fledged School later with a faculty of 20 endowed
with a rich teaching and research expertise in diverse frontier
areas such as synthesis of novel molecules, bioinorganic
mimics, biomolecules from natural sources, screening for
important bioproperties such as anticancer, molecular modeling,
EPR imaging, photo processes, molecular recognition studies,
development of novel reagents and reactions, etc. Such a
unique blend of diverse expertise of faculty in different
research areas renders the School a prestigious one in Madurai
Kamaraj University, which provides an excellent opportunity
to students who come out creditably successful in Competitive
exams such as UGC/CSIR and GATE. Students are getting placed in leading companies through campus interview.
This
School provides a Choice Based Credit system for its M.SC.
Course rendering flexibility to the curriculums to suit
the individual needs of the students. It has a student strength
of 24 per year in M.Sc, and 20 per annum in M.Phil. Currently,
around 100 research scholars are performing research work
for their Ph.D. on full and part time basis. The students
qualifying in its various courses are highly placed in teaching
and research positions and in industries both in India and
abroad. The School has to its credit more than 200 publications
in reputed international and national journals in the last
five years. Based on the above impressive performance in
the teaching and research programmes, the School has been
accorded the UGC-DRS (PhaseII) programme, the first phase of which
is over and has applied for. Our School
is also a recipient of funds for infrastructures development
under DST-FIST programme. Our School has also been provided
funds from DST-IRHPA programme for a 300 MHz High Resolution
NMR instrument that was installed a few year back Recently Dept of material science s attached to this school for administrative purposes alone..
Courses offered :
M.Sc.
(CBCS)
M.Phi1.
Ph.D.
School of
Chemistry consists of the following Departments :
* Department of Inorganic
Chemistry
* Department of Organic Chemistry
* Department of Physical Chemistry
* Department of Natural Products Chemistry
* Department of Materials Science
Department of
Inorganic Chemistry
Name
Designation
Dr.PR.Athappan, M.Sc., Ph.D.
Professor & Head
Dr.D.
Chellappa, M.Sc.,Ph.D.
Reader
Dr.A. Ramu
M.Sc.,Ph.D.
Professor
Dr.S.
Sivakolunthu M.Sc., Ph.D.
Professor
Department of
Organic Chemistry
Name
Designation
Dr.S. Perumal, M.Sc., Ph.D.,
Professor & Head
Dr.A.
Ponnusamy, M.Sc., Ph.D.
Micro Analyst -
Reader
Dr.S.Muthusubramanian,M.Sc.,Ph.D.
Professor
Department of
Physical Chemistry
Name
Designation
Dr.S.Rajagopal, M.Sc., M.Phil., Ph.D.,
Professor & Head
Dr.M.S.
Ramachandran, M.Sc.,Ph.D.
Professor &
In-charge -
EMMRC
Dr.S.
Vaidyanathan, M.Sc.,Ph.D.
Professor
Dr.R.
Murugesan, M.Sc.,Ph.D.
Professor
Dr.R.
Ramaraj, M.Sc.,Ph.D.
Professor
Department of
Natural Products Chemistry
Name
Designation
Dr.P. Ramesh, M.Sc., Ph.D.
Professsor & Head
Dr.R.
Gandhidasan, M.Sc.,M.Phil.,Ph.D.
Professor
Dr.K.
Pitchumani, M.Sc.,Ph.D.
Professor
Department of
Materials Science
Name
Designation
Dr.P.
Sarawswathi
Reader & Head
Special Facilities :
Active instruments now in the
School of Chemistry
CD Spectrophotometer
C,H - Analyser
HPLC (Shimadzu) and HPLC (March Hitachi)
FT-IR (JASCO)
Polarimeter (RUDALPH)
MPLC (BUCHI 688)
Electrochemical Analyser (BAS CV 50)
Photolysis Unit (Laser optics)
GC-MS (Finnigan)
Diode Array Spectrophotometer (CARL
ZEISS)
TGA-DTA (NETZSCH)
GC - 2 Nos. (Shimadzu & Chemito)
Low Temperature Bath (Neslab)
UV Spectrophotometer (Shimadzu)
UV Spectrophotometer (Jasco)
UV Spectrophotometer (Pye Unichem.)
EG & G-PAR Cyclic Voltammogram
(with RDE Set-up)
Fluorescence Spectrophotometer (Hitachi)
Silicon Graphics Work Station
NMR 300 MlHz Spectrometer Brucker
Department of Materials
Science
Profile
The
Department of Materials Science is the first of its kind
in Tamil Nadu Universities. Inaugurated on 9the May, 1988,
the Department commenced the academic activities immediately
by introducing M. Phil. courses from the academic year 1988-89.
This is an interdisciplinary course in which candidates
with M.Sc. in Chemistry or Physics or Materials Science
or Applied Sciences are admitted. It is attached to the Scholl of Chemistry for administrative purposes.
The
Department has done substantial research work in the last
fourteen years with a major thrust of published work on
(i) photochemical reactions of organic molecules encapsulated
in cyclodextrins, clays and zeolite cavities, organic redox
reactions on irradiated semiconductor surfaces, photosensitized
electron transfer reactions of metal complexes with energy
(ii) Conducting polymers and their applications (iii) Synthesis
of new materials (iv) Some aspects of quantum well, quantum
dot and (v) Theoretical aspects of High Tc superconductors.
These research topics are highly interdisciplinary and the
Dept. has active collaboration with the School of Physics,
School of Chemistry and USIC at Madurai Kamaraj University
and as well with the CSIR and DST have been undertaken and
more than eighty papers were published on the above topics.
15 candidates have got their Ph. D. degrees. The staffs also
have good research collaboration with international institutes
like Osaka University in Japan, University of Leicester
in England, Sandia National Laboratories, New Mexico in
USA, Max-Planck Institute at Mulheim in Germany and Institute
of Chemistry, Academia Sinica at Taipei in Taiwan. The Department
has organized four National Seminars during the past fourteen
years.
Courses :
M.
Phil. - Two semesters
Students strength - 6 per year
Ph.
D. -
Awarded - 15
Submitted - 1
Working - 4 (Full time 2 & Part time 2)
Faculty :
Name
Designation
Dr.R.
Saraswathy, M.Sc. Ph.D
Reader
& Head
Special Facilities :
Facilities
for Material characterization by electrochemical and spectroscopic
techniques are available.
