Current Programmes
Professor N Torto – email: n.torto@ru.ac.za
Development of Microdialysis, SPE, SPME, MIPs and immunosorbent based sample handling techniques.
Fabrication of electrospun nanofibres.
Professor T Nyokong – email: gail.cobus@ru.ac.za
Development of sensors for analysis of pollutants and of neurotransmitters.
Photodynamic therapy of cancer.
Nanotechnology.
Professor MT Davies-Coleman – email: m.davies-coleman@ru.ac.za
Chemical ecology of South African marine organisms.
Biomedical potential of South African marine natural products.
Synthesis of bioactive marine secondary metabolities.
Professor G Watkins – email: g.watkins@ru.ac.za
Spectroscopic and thermal studies of coordination and organometallic complexes.
Supramolecular chemistry – design of nanomaterial.
Bioinorganic chemistry.
Dr Z Tshentu – email: z.tshentu@ru.ac.za
Bioinorganic chemistry of vanadium.
Metal ion separation.
Dr R Klein – email: r.klein@ru.ac.za
Synthesis and application of organolithium and organochromium compounds.
Heterocycles with medicinal potential.
Mrs J Sewry – email: j.sewry@ru.ac.za
Chemical Education; Service Learning and Community Engagement
Professor PT Kaye – email: p.kaye@ru.ac.za
Asymmetric synthesis of chiral molecules.
Design and synthesis of metal-selective ligands and catalysts.
Application of computational methods in the elucidation of organic reaction mechanism.
Synthetic and physical organic studies of heterocyclic compounds with medicinal potential (e.g. HIV-1 inhibitors, antimalarials).
