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If all the information contained in a single human cell were written down the words would fill the equivalent of 10,000 volumes of the Encyclopaedia Britannica.

Chemistry lies right at the heart of all science

Chemistry student in the lab

Welcome to the School of Chemistry at the University of Leeds

We are one of the most prestigious chemistry departments in the UK, having built up a national and international reputation for our teaching and research excellence over more than one hundred years.

We have 55 academic and academic-related staff, in excess of 140 postgraduate students and 50 postdoctoral fellows. In the Research Assessment Exercise (RAE) 2008 the School was confirmed as one of the top departments, being ranked 8th in the UK. This is reinforced by our "excellent" rating for our teaching in the Teaching Quality Assessment (TQA).

Forthcoming events
29 February 2012
Organic Seminar

Biomimetic bromination for natural product synthesis

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29 February 2012
Inorganic Speaker

Steric Effects of Macrocyclic Ligands Driving Unusual Sm(II/III) Reductions

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Latest news

Fellowship success.

10 February 2012

Dr Yuan Guo, a research fellow in Dr Dejian Zhou’s group, has been awarded a...


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Silver drugs?

3 February 2012

Researchers at the Universities of Leeds and Bradford have found that...


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Scientific cruise

2 February 2012

Researchers in Chemistry have recently returned from South East Asia having...


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Poster prize win.

24 January 2012

In December Kathryn Evans, a PhD student in Dr. Julie Fisher’s group, was...


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