The Chemistry Department at Brown has excellent resources for advanced training and education in the chemical sciences. Research and instruction, under the guidance of a distinguished faculty, is carried out in modern chemical laboratories well-equipped with the most advanced scientific instrumentation. The graduate program has a strong tradition of training creative and successful scientists who have gone on to careers in university, government, and industrial settings. Through individual research projects, seminar programs, and formal courses each student has the opportunity to develop his or her scientific talent and to achieve a deeper level of understanding of chemical phenomena.
Brown has vigorous programs in organic, inorganic, physical, and bio-chemistry as well as in related areas. Within the broad field of organic chemistry, there are research groups pursuing the total synthesis and the biosynthesis of natural products, the development of new synthetic methodology, the application and mechanisms of organometallic reactions, the intricacies of biochemical reaction mechanisms, and the dynamics of photochemical and free radical reactions. The research in inorganic and physical-inorganic chemistry spans the gamut from inorganic glasses, bioinorganic polymers and metalloenzyme models to work with multimetallic molecules, electrochemistry, and models for hydrodesulfurization. Research in biochemistry includes studies of enzyme mechanisms; the relationship between DNA sequence, conformation, and biological properties; the insertion of non-natural amino acids into proteins; and the in vivo NMR of biological tissues, organs, and organisms. Finally, physical chemistry and chemical physics are represented by theoretical and experimental programs focusing on surfaces, clusters, and liquids as well as on the development of state-of-the-art spectroscopic and ultrafast-electron-diffraction techniques.
Database of Honors, Masters, and Ph.D Theses
See Library support statement for Graduate Program Review for Chemistry
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The Library has endeavored to achieve a RESEARCH level collection in most of the major areas of interest to Chemistry. Emphasis is placed on experimental and theoretical applications of physical, inorganic, and organic chemistry.
Overall, there are few weaknesses in the Chemistry collection. In recent years, special care has been taken to select more in the area of developing technology, such as the application of lasers in Chemistry and Biochemistry. Any weakness in Chemistry is due, in part, to the dramatic increase in the cost of journal publications.
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