The historical backdrop of the Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry at Presidency University (past Presidency College) goes back to mid-nineteenth century. Throughout the years, various eminent and celebrated figures have been connected with the office as staff and as understudies.

The Department offers three-year college classes both in Chemistry and Biochemistry (consumption limits: Chemistry – 42; Biochemistry – 10), and two-year postgraduate courses in Chemistry (admission limit: 30). Class sizes are little giving a decent arrangement of staff understudy cooperation and scholastic adaptability. The assorted capabilities of the staff guarantee mastery in all the customary subdisciplines of science and in addition in different interdisciplinary zones.

The division gives a pleasant scholarly environment to the inquisitive and creative youths. Employees are accessible as scholarly counselors and hold available time for meeting about their courses; they are additionally ready to examine science, science, vocation opportunities, and even theory.

Because of the backing of the University and the Chemistry workforce's proceeded with achievement in pulling in outer examination subsidizing from different organizations including the Department of Scirnce and Technology, Council of Scientific and Industrial Research, University Grants' Commission, the office has a wide assortment of present day instrumentation (e.g, FTIR Spectrophotometer, Time-determined (nanosecond.picosecond) Spectrofluorimeter, Steady State Spectrofluorimeter, UV-VIS-NIR Spectrophotometer, CD Spectropolarimeter, Atomic Absorption Spectrometer, HPLC Systems, Chromatography System, Lyophilizer) and specific virtual products. It is right now a DST-FIST supported division. The progressing research ventures include:

• Studies towards the synthesis of biologically active natural and non-natural furoquinones, furo-macrolides and their thiophene analogs.
• Studies towards the synthesis of condensed heterocycles via alkynylation, arylation and olefination of α-halo-α,β-unsaturated aldehyde intermediates.
• Interactions between poly-electrolytes and surface active ionic liquids.
• Studies on structural perturbation, molecular dynamics simulation and chemical synthesis of lectin peptides and proteins.
• Folding and association of β-Sheet proteins: studies with oligomeric plant lectins.
• Characterization and evaluation of some plant polymeric gum as flame retardant and antioxidant additive for polymers.
• Photoinduced energy transfer, photophysical aspects, and docking studies of biomolecules and their interaction with other molecule.
• Photophysical aspects and photoinduced energy transfer/ electron transfer in ternary system consisting of two donors and one acceptor.
• Photophysical aspects and docking studies of bio-molecules with emphasis on photo induced energy transfer.
• Synthesis characterization and evaluation of some polymer nanocomposites based on nanodimensional polyvalent transition metal mixed oxides.
• Synthetic nanostructured agglomerates of mixed metal oxides: arsenic sorption behavior and mechanism in the presence of ions occurring in ground water.
• Polymer-inorganic hybrid nanocomposites (PIHNC)-preparation, characterization and their potential as nanodielectrics.
• Design consideration and field performance validation of high arsenic removal water filer packed with lab-bench developed material: A lab-to-field Technology transfer program.
• Studies on noble metal biomolecule complexes--their action on bacteria and tumor cells.
• The department boasts of phenomenal success rate of its students in different National and International level examinations. A large number of our students are placed as Research Scholars, Scientists and members of faculty in the premier Institutes in India and Institutes abroad.

Department of Chemistry
Presidency University,
86/1 College Street,
Kolkata – 700073