Established in 1871 with the appointment of Professor James Gow Black, the Department of Chemistry at the University of Otago is the oldest chemistry department in New Zealand. It has grown to be one of the largest Departments in the Division of Sciences and contributes to various courses and programmes in Sciences and Health Sciences at the University of Otago.

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Upcoming Seminars

• Friday 2nd March - 12p.m. in CHEM 1

  Dr Grace Morgan (School of Chemistry & Chemical Biology, University College Dublin)

  TBA

• Friday 9th March - 12p.m. in CHEM 1

  Matthew Cowan (Department of Chemistry, University of Otago)

  Development of imide chemistry

• Friday 16th March - 12p.m. in CHEM 1

  Professor Annie Powell (Institute for Inorganic Chemistry, University of Karlsruhe, Germany)

  Supramolecular approaches in the quest for improved molecular magnets

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