Department of Chemistry

Professional standard teaching and research facilities

Discover our award-winning York Structural Biology Laboratory

Research in Antarctica

Year 4 of our MChem can be spent at York, Abroad or in Industry

Our Department of Chemistry ranked 1st for learning opportunities satisfaction among participating Russell Group universities in the NSS 2021

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Equality and Diversity

Chemistry at York has held an Athena SWAN Gold award for more than a decade, and was the first department in the UK to achieve this highest level.

Events‌

Thu

Jul

Hydrogen bond templated synthesis of interlocked molecules – Aiming for simplicity to allow for genuinely useful 3D molecular scaffolds

Dr Nick Evans, Lancaster University

Fri

Jul

From organometallic catalysis to bio-hybrid catalysis: Some recent results from the group

Dr Stellios Arseniyadis, Queen Mary University of London

Wed

Aug

Creating opportunities for resource development, networking and shared learning through the new Green Chemistry Teaching and Learning Community (GCTLC)

Dr Jonathon Moir, Beyond Benign (USA)

ChemYork magazine

The Department publishes a biannual magazine, highlighting our teaching, research, staff and students.

A new synthetic method developed in York, conjugate addition/ring expansion (CARE), enables the simple synthesis of a wide range of cyclic compounds that can incorporate many different functional groups.

Chemistry at York ranked 7th in the UK by the Complete University Guide

Posted on Wednesday 15 June 2022

Chemistry at York is ranked as 7th in the UK by the Complete University Guide.

Next Generation ‘SHARPER’ Benchtop NMR Spectroscopy

Posted on Tuesday 14 June 2022

An innovative method for enhancing benchtop NMR spectroscopic signals has been reported, opening new possibilities for this simple low-cost technology to be used in settings outside the traditional research lab.