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Objectives: To cover
general and in-depth nowledge of theories in such fields as Organic
Chemistry, Physical Chemistry, Analytical Chemistry, etc., and ensure
that students are armed with required practical skills, research
methodology and logical thinking procedure.
Specialisations: Physical Chemistry,
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Head: Dr. Huynh Thi Kieu Xuan
E-mail: htkxuan@hcmuns.edu.vn
Research areas: Magnetic materials, thermal insulating
materials, metal powder materials, adhesive materials; Metal oxide catalysts;
Anti-corrosive metal coating and galvanization; Complex mechanical and
metallic compounds and bio-activated substances; Environment: Treatment
of running water, sewage, and industrial liquid waste; Methods for separation,
micro- and macro-analysis on thin layer chromatography.
Head: Dr. Nguyen Ba Hoai Anh
E-mail: nbhanh@hcmuns.edu.vn
Research areas: Researching and transferring processes
for food safety analysis, environmental analysis, analysis of toxicity
traces (residues of antibiotic, pesticide, azo pigment, etc.) in exported
foodstuff or analysis of composition of petrol/gas derivatives. Studies
are grouped into: Approaches to chromatography, Approaches to atomic,
molecular and chemical spectroscopy, Approaches to electro-chemical analysis
and analytical chemical equipment.
Head: Associate Prof., Dr. Le Ngoc
Thach
E-mail: lnthach@hcmuns.edu.vn
Research areas:
Chemistry of natural compounds: Investigating
chemical composition of plants in
Vietnam, with an emphasis on medicinal and essential oil plants; Extracting,
isolating and characterizing plant/herb-based alkaloids, terpenoids, steroids,
flavonoids, propennilbenzen, glycosides, etc.; Structural elucidation
of natural products by making extensive use of modern spectroscopic methods
such as 1D and 2D NMR, UV, IR, MS, LC-MS, GC-MS, HPLC; Testing antiviral,
anti-HIV, anti-cancer properties on crude jelly, essence oil, or purified
constituents;
Organic synthesis: Synthesis and semi-synthesis
of valuable organic chemicals used in food industry, pharmaceutical products,
perfumery, agriculture (e.g. plant growth regulators, insect attractants,
insecticides); Developing new organic synthesis methods such as microwave
and ultrasound assisted synthesis, phase transfer catalysts, biological
metabolism, solvent-free reactions, reactions on solid supports, salt
effect, etc.
Head: Associate Prof., Dr. Nguyen Thi
Phuong Thoa
E-mail: ntpthoa@phys.hcmuns.edu.vn
Research areas:
Chemistry of polymers: Modification of natural
polymers (rubber, chitosan, etc.); Synthesis of polymer photocrosslinkables;
Synthesis of polymers as solid supports for bio-activated substances;
Synthesis of polymers and monomers activated by micro-waves and ultra-sound;
Living-polymer synthesis; Composite materials and nanocomposites.
Catalytic chemistry: Studying catalysts to be
used in organic synthetic reactions such as transfer reactions, alkylation
reactions, etc.; Synthesizing pillared clays to be used as catalysts and
absorbents.
Organic physical chemistry: Synthesizing and
studying the structures of biologically active hydroxy phenanthroperylene
quinones; Structural elucidation of organic compounds using RNM, IR, UV
spectroscopy; Synthesis of organic fine chemistry.
Electro-chemistry: Studying corrosion in marine
Oil and Gas production systems and corrosion inhibitors; Studying air
pollutants and their influence on material corrosion; Electrolysis for
metal recycling in clean production; Electrochemical study on reaction
kynetics (on electro-conductive polymer films, pesticide decomposition,
etc.) using advanced electro-chemical techniques; Sonolytical production
of biodiesel fuel.
Theoretical chemistry: Quantum calculations
on structure, activity, reaction mechanism and investigating the structure-activity/structure-property
quantitative interrelationship; The impact of the medium (solution, temperature,
pressure, etc.) on molecular properties and chemical reactions; Applying
combined computational methods to investigating macro-molecular systems.
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