Year of Establishment: 1964

The department of Chemistry is one of first five departments established by the Shivaji University in 1964. It offers programs such as M.Sc., M.Phil. and Ph.D. degrees. The Department is one of the best for its teaching and research activities. The M.Sc. course has Organic, Inorganic, Physical and Analytical Chemistry specializations. The M.Sc Industrial and Applied Chemistry courses were introduced to meet the overwhelming response of chemistry graduates. The department of Chemistry is the prime department of the University with nearly 400 students in P.G. courses and 50 research students in the academic year. The department is recognized by pharmaceutical industries as a producer of the scientific man power. The alumni of the department are holding the higher positions in National Laboratories, Institutions and Universities of our country as well as abroad. The department is sponsored by Department of Science and Technology (DST) under FIST program and by University Grant Commission (UGC) under SAP-DRS program. The employment response is more than 90%. The research work carried in the department is of international status with total number of publications so far are 1500. The faulty of the department are reviewers for the national and international journals. The total number of major research projects completed by the faculty in last five years is nine.

  Research Areas :

• Development of new methodologies in organic synthesis and development of Green Chemistry concept. Synthesis, Characterization and Applications of organometallic compounds. (Schiff’s base metal complexes).

• Smart materials, Nanomaterials and Optoelectronics.

• Development new techniques for polymer thin film preparation.

• Separation Science and Analytical applications.

• Supramolecular Chemistry, Molecular Recognition, Catalysis and Perevapouration.

M.Sc. Chemistry Courses in following specializations

Subject Specializations:

• Organic Chemistry

• Inorganic Chemistry

• Physical Chemistry

• Analytical Chemistry

• Industrial Chemistry and

• Applied Chemistry 

  Academic Programmes Offered : 

M.Sc. (Theory & Dissertation)

Certificate course in Analytical Instrumentation

M. Sc. Program:

• M. Sc. Entrance test in the Month of April.

• Admission in the month of May on the basis of merit in the entrance and B. Sc. marks.

• Teaching program starts in the first week of June.

• Internal test conducted in the month of August and September.

• Semester I and III examinations in October/November.

• Semester practical examinations in the month of November.

• Results of semester I and III in the month of December.

• Second term commences from 1st December.

• Internal test in the month of January and February.

• Semester II and IV examination in the month of March.

• Practical examinations in the month of April.

• Results of the semester II and IV in the month of May. 

M. Phil.

• Entrance in the month of July.

• Admission in the month of August.

• Teaching and research program commences from the August.

• M. Phil. Theory examination in the month of May.

• Syllabus of M.Phil. Entrance 2010.

Ph. D.

• Number of Ph. D produced in last five years : 46

  Course Structure :(Papers)

• Analysis of silver containing Ores

• Analysis of Suverna bhasma for its gold content

• Analysis of hypo solution for silver content.

• Water analysis

• Analysis of alloy

• Food and oil analysis

• Analysis of alcohols

• Corrosion product analysis

Contact : Faculty of the Department

Sophisticated Equipments in the Department:

• FT-NMR Spectrophotometer (Proton and Carbon-13 )

• FTIR Spectrometer

• Gas Chromatography

• Spectrofluorimeter

• Rotary Vacuum Flash Evaporator

• UV-Visible Spectrometers

• Vacuum Coating Unit

• Densitometer

• Vapour Pressure Osmometer

• LCR Bridge

• UV-Visible NIR Spectrophotometer

• Nepheometer

• Cyclic Voltmeter

• Recording Polarograph

• Karl-Fischer (Moisture content) Titrator

• CHNS Analyser

• Prof. Mark Humphrey, Molecular materials Laboratory, Department of Chemistry, Australian National University, Canberra ACT 0200

• Radiochemistry Division and Chemistry Division, BARC Mumbai, India.

• NCL, Pune, for Project Work (With Dr. P. P. Wadgaonkar).

• University of Jammu and Kashmir, Department of Physics for Crystallographic Study, India.

• Center for Excellence in Polymer Science, Karnataka University, Dharwad.

• MoU-With Sungkyankwan University, South Korea.

• MoU-With Department of Chemistry, Hanyang University, South Korea.

• MoU - With Monash University (Australia)

Head,
Department of Chemistry,
Email: chemistry@unishivaji.ac.in