PhD

If you plan to register for this degree please contact the academic staff member of the Department of Chemistry to discuss your proposed project.  For enquries on finance aid please contact our financial aid administrator 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 Troto) n.torto@ru.ac.za

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

• Photodynamic therapy of cancer. (Professor Nyokong) t.nyokong@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) z.tshentu@ru.ac.za

• Metal ion separation (Dr Tshentu)

• 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)