Industrial Chemistry and Water Treatment

Organic Chemistry

Organic chemistry is a sub discipline of chemistry that deals with the scientific study of the structure, properties and reactions involving compounds of carbon and hydrogen, along with a handful of other elements – primarily oxygen, nitrogen, silicon, sulphur, and phosphorus. Organic chemistry includes the areas of organic synthesis, synthesis methods, reaction mechanisms and kinetics, and analytical methods such as chromatography (TLC, GC, HPLC), and structure determination and spectroscopic methods such as NMR and IR. It also includes organometallic and organoelement chemistry, which are the study of carbon-based compounds that contain metals and more generally that contain elements other than the few mentioned above. In the industrial realm, work can involve discovery chemistry (making new chemical entities) and process optimization (finding better ways to produce chemicals). Both of these areas are increasing making use of combinatorial approaches, in which leverage is obtained through large-scale parallel design. Methods of organic chemistry are heavily used in polymer chemistry, materials science, medicinal chemistry and natural product chemistry.