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Head of the Department
Dr Atul Makwana
Members
Dr Nirmal D Desai
Mr Dinesh V Katara
Dr Francis A Christy
Dr Bijal A Shah
Dr Mallika Sanyal
Dr Pranav M Trivedi
Dr Devang R Pandya
Management Appointee
Ms Deesha Khetani
Dr Uma Harikrishnan
Dr Divya Gangal
Dr Divya Buha
Dr Angel Mary Joseph
Laboratory Personnel
Mr Sunil Macwan
Mr Shailesh Mistry
Ms Hetal Makwana
Mr Ramesh Kalal
Degree Programmes
Bachelor of Chemistry
Bachelor of Chemistry with
Voca onal Industrial Chemistry
Graduate Programmes
Masters in Chemistry (Analy cal)
Masters in Chemistry (Organic)
Number of Seats
BSc. Chemistry : 30
BSc. Chemistry with
Voc. Industrial Chemistry : 30
MSc. Chemistry (Organic) : 30
MSc. Chemistry (Analy cal) : 30
Admission Procedure
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Contact
chemistry@sxca.edu.in
pganalytical@sxca.edu.in
Department of Chemistry
Chemistry is one of the fundamental subjects in science and is the
heart of many major industries like fine chemicals, dyes,
pigments, pharmaceu cals, petroleum, paints etc. Hence a
degree in chemistry leads to innumerable choices in career.
The Department of Chemistry was established in 1956 and is one
of the largest and most prolific Departments of the College. It has
an illustrious history in nurturing the SXCA tradi on of excellence
and has provided regional leadership in chemical educa on and
research. Most recently the Department has earned pres gious
DST-FIST sponsorship for the College.
The Department's teaching and research program spans the
length and breadth of Chemistry. General areas covered in the
curriculum include Organic Chemistry, Inorganic Chemistry,
Physical and Analy cal Chemistry. The Department also offers
two master's programmes with Analy cal and Organic Chemistry
as specializa ons.
Vision
The Department of Chemistry seeks to be recognized as one of the
best Chemistry Department with acknowledged excellence in
teaching, learning, research, and outreach.
Mission
The faculty is dedicated to the crea on and dissemina on of
knowledge in all aspects of the chemical sciences. We strive to
enable students to make meaningful contribu ons to our diverse,
technological society and to improve the lives of the ci zens. The
goals of the department focus on improving the educa onal
experience in Chemistry at the undergraduate and postgraduate
levels and leading to research and service to the society and
na on at large.
Undergraduate Programme in Chemistry
Chemistry is offered as a part of several subject combina ons.
The thrust is in developing a strong founda on in the basic
concepts. The curriculum covers every area of Chemistry,
comprising Organic Chemistry, Inorganic Chemistry, Physical and
Analy cal Chemistry. These basics are supplemented with some
current and environmentally relevant topics like Green Chemistry,
Soil Chemistry and Everyday Chemistry as elec ves.
Undergraduate Programme in Chemistry with Voca onal
Industrial Chemistry
In 1995 the Department also began offering a voca onal course
in Industrial Chemistry. Keeping in view our goal of making
students self-reliant and industrious the voca onal course has
been designed with entrepreneurship as a basic flavor. The
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students enrolling in this program have Chemistry as
their core subject with addi onal papers of subjects in
Industrial Chemistry. This helps them to learn and train in
the area of some of the core industrial aspects.
Under the entrepreneurship skill development program
the voca onal IC students run an in-house industrial
training unit (ITU) wherein they are trained in
purchasing raw materials, manufacturing products such
as soap solu on, candles and creams; promo ng and
selling these products in the market. This training
contributes immensely in making the students
enterprising and self-sustaining.
Post graduate Programme in Chemistry (Organic)
M Sc Organic Chemistry was the first PG program of the
college, started in the year of 1979-80.
This PG programme that involves the study of structure,
proper es and reac ons of organic compounds. The
applica on of M.Sc Organic Chemistry is found in various
fields as most of the products we use in our daily to day
life are made of organic compounds. It includes drugs,
polymers, Dyes, intermediate, Pes cides. insec cides
etc. Which is useful to understand the chemical synthesis
of Various Organic products. It involves various
laboratory work for prac cal understanding of organic
concepts This Master's Program offers an exci ng range
of educa onal opportuni es, which strengthens in both
the fundamental area of the discipline, and in significant
new areas and applica ons.
Post graduate Programme in Chemistry (Analy cal)
In June 2018, a non-granted post graduate course in
Analy cal Chemistry was started in the Chemistry
Department to provide be er career opportuni es to
the student and to strengthen the Department. In
today's world Analy cal Chemistry has become an
integral part of chemical sciences, life sciences and
biosciences. Analy cal chemistry deals with quan ta ve
and qualita ve analysis of ma er based on classical, wet
chemical methods and modern instrumental methods to
separate, iden fy and quan fy it.
The course is designed to cover all the important aspects
of modern analy cal chemistry, spanning from
theore cal knowledge on analy cal spectroscopy,
electroanaly cal techniques, modern instrumenta on
techniques, pharmaceu cal chemistry and
environmental chemistry, and extending to prac cal
learning of various spectroscopic techniques including
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UV-Vis, IR, flame photometry, separa on techniques
using column chromatography etc.
Gujarat is an industrial hub having some of the largest
pharmaceu cal manufacturers and other industries. To
make our PG students more equipped for the industrial
job opportuni es, we offer a full credit course on
industrial training and disserta on in the last semester.
Laboratory facili es
There are two types of facili es: one is Departmental
Laboratory and the other one is Centralized Laboratory
which is currently managed by Department of
Chemistry.The Department has five well-equipped
laboratories wherein students can perform a variety of
chemical experiments including organic and inorganic
prepara ons, qualita ve and quan ta ve analysis as
well as physical experiments using latest equipments .
All Labs are well equipped with basic infrastructures and
instruments like Chromatograph, Spectrometer,
Colorimeter, Flame photometer, Karl Fischer trator,
Conduc vity meter, pH meter, Poten ometer,
Refractometer, Polarimeter etc.
The Centralized Laboratory facility is u lized by
postgraduate students and research scholars. It is
equipped with high end instruments like HPLC, UV -
Visible spectrophotometer, auto trator, IR, scien fic
balance etc.
Key areas of research in the department
Majority of the faculty members are doctorates, with
several of them having PhD guideship; hence the
department has contributed towards many students
ge ng their Ph Ds. The Department has a wide variety of
research areas, which makes it vibrant and compe ve.
Key Areas of research in the Department are:
• Organic Chemistry: Synthe c heterocyclic chemistry,
Medicinal Chemistry, Phase transfer catalysis
• Chemistry of Graphene, Polymer Science, Nano
Materials and Nano Composites
• Analy cal Chemistr y, Conductometric and
Thermodynamic study of complexes
• Analy cal Chemistr y, Conductometric and
Thermodynamic study of supramolecules with
different metal ion
• Thermodynamics and stability of metal ion-crown
ether interac on, Quan ta ve Bioanalysis
• Photo-chemistry, Nano par cles, Nano medicines
• Coordina on Chemistry (Metal Based Drug).
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