Department of Chemistry

The Department of Chemistry trains chemists, from the Bachelor's to the Master's degree, in the main branches of the discipline: organic, analytical, inorganic and pharmaceutical chemistry, with environmental and water chemistry added at Master's level. Students enter through the Matter Sciences common core and follow the Chemistry pathway from their second year.

What we teach

After the common core, the Bachelor's degree offers four specialisations (organic, analytical, pharmaceutical and inorganic chemistry), continued by the corresponding Master's degrees. Training gives a large place to practice: ten teaching laboratories are reserved for practical work.

Practical work

• General chemistry (1st and 2nd years)
• Organic chemistry (L3, M1, M2)
• Electrochemistry (L3, M1, M2)
• Thermodynamics (L3, M1, M2)
• Pharmaceutical chemistry (L3, M1, M2)
• Analytical chemistry (L3, M1, M2)
• Inorganic chemistry (L3, M1, M2)

Our research areas

• Phytochemistry and valorisation of the Algerian flora: medicinal and aromatic plants, essential oils, bioactive molecules, antioxidant and antimicrobial activities.
• Organic synthesis and molecules of biological interest: heterocycles, multicomponent reactions, green chemistry.
• Crystal chemistry and materials chemistry: crystal structures and molecular interactions, metal complexes, hybrid and molecular materials, metal-organic frameworks, materials for nonlinear optics.
• Environmental chemistry and water treatment: photocatalysis (TiO2), advanced oxidation, adsorption and biosorption, nanomaterials for depollution, fate of pollutants, wastewater reuse.
• Corrosion and corrosion inhibitors; theoretical chemistry and modelling (DFT).

Fields of interest

• Development of syntheses and biological evaluation of new molecules
• Phytochemistry and valorisation of the Algerian flora
• Environmental chemistry
• Materials chemistry

Our strengths

• Research laboratories covering all of these areas, from synthesis to structural characterisation, from analysis to the environment.
• A large scientific output, widely cited in international journals (see “The department in figures”).
• Training in which every specialisation relies on dedicated practical work.
• Links with industry: end-of-studies placements at Bachelor's and Master's level with SAIDAL.

Research projects (2024 information sheet)

• Direct and indirect photoinduced transformation of a mixture of two dyes in homogeneous and heterogeneous phases in an aqueous medium — Code: E00920140095
• Reuse of wastewater for the production of drinking, agricultural and industrial water — Code: E00920140098
• Synthesis of inhibitors and study of metal corrosion — Code: E00920130054
• Development of methods for extracting and analysing heavy metals in fine dust collected from ambient air at a traffic-proximity site — Code: G00920140103
• Theoretical study and DFT modelling of the physicochemical properties of functionalised organometallic complexes of f-elements — Code: E00920140093
• Synthesis, structural characterisation and biological activity of new sulfanilamide-based substances — Code: E00920140090
• Phytochemical and pharmacological studies of species of the Asteraceae (composite) family — Code: E00920140099
• Development and characterisation of new materials by chemical and electrochemical routes — Code: E00920140088
• Study of the fate of organic pollutants by photochemical routes in homogeneous and heterogeneous media — Code: E00920140094
• Synthesis, structural study and physical properties; structure–property correlation in molecular materials for magnetochemistry — Code: E00920140070
• Synthesis, characterisation and properties of new complexes and polymers based on polyazoles and Schiff bases — Code: E00920140089
• New routes to, and syntheses of, original molecules with potential biological activity — Code: E00920140071
• Modification of adsorption supports: application to water depollution — Code: E00920130153
• Crystal-chemical, thermal and structural study of carboxylates with low thermal stability — Code: E00920130120
• Synthesis and crystal-chemical study of hybrid compounds of transition metals — Code: E00920140068
• Phototransformation of emerging pollutants in aqueous media — Code: E00920140097
• Valorisation of natural resources, phytochemical and pharmacological study of Algerian medicinal and aromatic plants — Code: E0092013057
• Valorisation of the Algerian flora: search for and structural determination of bioactive molecules — Code: E0092013053
• Phytochemical and pharmacological study of Algerian medicinal plants — Code: B00L01UN250120130001
• Separation, identification and pharmacological study of bioactive substances from medicinal plants — Code: B00L01UN250120120048
• Code: B00L01UN25012015006 — Code: B00L01UN25012015006
• Study of the degradation of organic pollutants by radical oxidation in dilute aqueous solution — Code: E00920140069
• Application of iron oxyhydroxides to water depollution by photochemical routes — Code: E00920120057
• Synthesis, structural study and properties of new hybrid materials — Code: E00920140080
• Adsorption of rare earths on raw and modified nanostructured supports.
• Phytochemical study of Algerian plants and propolis. Determination of bioactive substances. Synthesis of structural analogues of molecules with therapeutic aims — Code: E00920140100
• Development of new routes for multicomponent and cascade reactions to improve their performance within green chemistry and to synthesise new molecules with potential activity — Code: E00920140092
• Preparation and characterisation of new TiO2-based materials — application to water treatment (removal of harmful substances and microorganisms) — Code: E009201478
• Anticorrosion effect of some ketene dithioacetal derivatives on steel corrosion in acidic media — Code: E00920130089
• Study of chromium fixation on solid supports — application to water treatment — Code: E00920140091