MSc

If you plan to register for a masters degree please contact the academic staff member of the Department of Chemistry to discuss your proposed project.  For financial enquiries please contact Mr John Gillam - j.p.gillam@ru.ac.za

Current programmes

• Development of Microdialysis, SPE, SPME, MIPs and immunosorbent based sample handling techniques

Fabrication of electrospun nanofibres (Professor Torto) n.torto@ru.ac.za

• Development of sensors for analysis of pollutants and of neurotransmitters. (Professor Nyokong)

• Photodynamic therapy of cancer. (Professor Nyokong) gail.cobus@ru.ac.za

• Nanotechnology (Professor Nyokong)

• Chemical ecology of South African marine organisms. (Professor Davies-Coleman)

m.davies-coleman@ru.ac.za

• Biomedical potential of South African marine natural products. (Professor Davies-Coleman)

• Synthesis of bioactive marine secondary metabolities. (Professor Davies-Coleman)

• Spectroscopic and thermal studies of coordination and organometallic complexes. (Professor Watkins)

• Supramolecular chemistry – design of nanomaterial. (Professor Watkins) g.watkins@ru.ac.za

• Bioinorganic chemistry (Professor Watkins)

• Bioinorganic chemistry of vanadium (Dr Tshentu)

• Metal ion separation (Dr Tshentu) z.tshentu@ru.ac.za

• Synthesis and application of organolithium and organochromium cojmpounds (Dr Klein) r.klein@ru.ac.za

• Heterocycles with medicinal potential (Dr Klein)

• Chemical Education; Service Learning and Community Engagement (Mrs Sewry) j.sewry@ru.ac.za

• Asymmetric synthesis of chiral molecules. (Professor Kaye) p.kaye@ru.ac.za

• Design and synthesis of metal-selective ligands and catalysts. (Professor Kaye)

• Application of computational methods in the elucidation of organic reaction mechanism. (Professor Kaye)

• Synthetic and physical organic studies of heterocyclic compounds with medicinal potential

(e.g. HIV-1 inhibitors, antimalarials). (Professor Kaye)