All graduate students are involved in the department's daily activities through a comprehensive training programme and attendance at research seminars given by internal and external speakers.  Students develop experience in scientific methods, techniques for reporting science and in the many skills required for a future career. Our interests and research activities span the whole spectrum of chemistry from the development of new drugs to the prediction of the structure of new catalytic materials.  Our development has been built on a solid foundation of chemical excellence including Ramsay?s Nobel prize-winning discovery of five noble gases and Sir Christopher Ingold?s pioneering work on physical organic chemistry