Courses and programmes
Our society faces major challenges in terms of health, environment and sustainable development. Development of new medicines, new materials and fuels are examples of areas that require knowledge in organic chemistry.
The Department of Organic Chemistry at Stockholm University offers education in organic chemistry at Bachelor, Master, and PhD level.
You will find more information about courses and programmes on the Chemistry Section's webpage:
Bachelor
Stockholm University offers a Bachelor's programme in Chemistry (180 ECTS). The Bachelor's program gives you knowledge in all areas of chemistry, lab skills and close collaboration with talented researchers and dedicated teachers. The Bachelor's programme is held in Swedish.
The Department of Organic Chemistry is responsible for the courses in organic chemistry. These courses are taught at KÖL (Chemistry Practice Laboratory), in well-equipped laboratories where students will master fundamental techniques including: Grignard reactions, substitution reactions, elimination reactions, condensations, enolate chemistry, distillation, chromatography, and basic NMR spectroscopy.
The courses are lab intensive where the students will get strong laboratory skills in basic as well as more advanced techniques. The diploma work is performed in one of the research groups at the Department of Organic Chemistry where the students will get trained in a real research environment working on a current research topic.
Bachelor's Programme in Chemistry
Master
The Department of Organic Chemistry at Stockholm University offers a Master's program where the students can specialize in a number of different fields such as: Organic Synthesis, Organometallics, NMR-spectroscopy, and Computational Chemistry.
Our master's program is open where the students can choose among many different courses at both our department as well as other departments (see below for requirements to take a degree with specialization in organic chemistry).
Courses are taught at KÖL (Chemistry Practice Laboratory) and also at the Department of Organic Chemistry, in well-equipped laboratories where students will master advanced techniques including: Schlenk-techniques, organometallic reagents, chiral separation using both HPLC and GC, high resolution mass-spectroscopy, advanced 1D and 2D NMR-techniques, and computational chemistry.
The diploma work is performed in one of the research groups at the Department of Organic Chemistry where the students will get trained in a real research environment working on a current research topic. Quite often, the results that are attained during the Diploma work end up in future scientific publications.
Master's program in organic chemistry
PhD studies
The Department of Organic Chemistry has an extensive research program. This research program covers many areas of experimental and theoretical chemistry including metal catalysis, asymmetric synthesis, several areas of bioorganic chemistry such as carbohydrate chemistry, nucleotide chemistry and enzyme chemistry.
During your PhD studies
During the PhD education, a total of 60 ECTS of advanced courses must be completed. The director of PhD studies is responsible for updating the departmental website with a schedule of available courses at the department. The planning of courses for the each PhD student should be done in conjunction with the establishment of the Indicidual Study Plan (ISP).
PhD courses
Via the link below, you will find doctoral courses organized by the Department of Organic Chemistry. Some of the courses are compulsory, others are optional. The planning of courses should take place in connection with the establishment of your individual study plan (ISP).
Last updated: June 7, 2023
Source: Department of Organic Chemistry