Modern Integrative Chemistry

Profession

The Master's Educational Program "Modern integrative chemistry" showcases the diverse research areas within the field of fundamental and applied chemistry. It is designed to prepare chemistry masters with proficiency in modern research methods and synthesis of substances and materials of various natures, enabling them to engage in scientific, practical, and pedagogical activities. The program aims to provide students with the conditions for acquiring a high level of knowledge, skills, and professional experience; developing general, general professional, and professional competencies; and delivering high-quality fundamental and professional training for specialists in chemistry and related fields. Graduates will be competitive in the labor market and adept at successfully solving professional problems within the research field.

The graduates of the program can work as employees in scientific and educational organizations, as well as in laboratories of chemical, biochemical and pharmaceutical industries. They can also work as researchers in scientific and educational organizations. With the competencies and qualifications acquired during the program, graduates can engage in other professional activities such as scientific and technical development and implementation of chemical products for various purposes. Graduates can work in the field of metrology, certification and technical quality control of raw materials, semi-finished products, and finished products, including pharmaceuticals; in the field of chemical and toxicological research, as well as in optimizing existing technologies and development of new methods and techniques for obtaining and analyzing new materials and substances.

Educational Process

The Master's Educational Program Modern integrative chemistry aims to provide students with a comprehensive understanding of the main trends in modern chemistry, the latest methods of physicochemical analysis, the nature and the fundamental principles underlying identification and characterization of substances and materials, and also includes scientific research within the framework of the scientific direction of the profile department.

Training is carried out by the leading professors of departments of RUDN University named after Patrice Lumumba and al-Farabi Kazakh National University.

Form of implementation: full-time.

Lectures and master classes by invited world-class foreign scientists, joint creative projects and conferences are regularly held.

Graduating departments for this program are chemical departments of Faculty of Science of RUDN University named after Patrice Lumumba and al-Farabi Kazakh National University.

In accordance with the chosen learning path, special disciplines of the program provide high-quality theoretical and practical training for students in combination with scientific research.

Practical classes and scientific research are carried out in educational and research laboratories of the graduating department, equipped with modern instrumentation and analytical equipment.

In the course of the program students study the following special disciplines:

The first academic year:

Study takes place at al-Farabi Kazakh National University.

• Foreign language (professional);


• History and philosophy of science;


• Higher education pedagogy;


• Psychology of management;


• Organization and planning of scientific research;


• Theory and problems of physical chemistry;


• Data analysis in chemistry;


• Chemistry of nanostructured system.

Variable component:

Module: Selected chapters of the main areas of chemistry:

• Selected chapters of inorganic chemistry;


• Selected Chapters of analytical chemistry;


• Modern problems of organic chemistry.

Module: Modern problems of chemistry:

• Modern problems of inorganic chemistry;


• Advanced analytical chemistry;


• Selected chapters of organic chemistry.

The second academic year:

Study takes place at RUDN named after Patrice Lumumba. Considerable time is devoted to the student's research activities and work in a team of researchers. The program ends with the defense of a master's thesis.

• Actual problems of modern chemistry;


• Foreign language in professional activity;


• Russian language in professional activity.

Optional elective modules:

Module: Inorganic chemistry:

• Chemistry of coordination compounds;


• Resonance methods in chemistry;


• Bioinorganic chemistry;


• Spectral methods in inorganic chemistry;


• Solid-state chemistry.

Module: Organic chemistry:

• Chemistry of natural compounds;


• Fundamentals of drug design;


• Mass spectrometry of organic compounds;


• Chemistry of heterocyclic compounds;


• Stereochemistry.

Module: Physical chemistry:

• Catalysis;


• Statistical thermodynamics;


• Kinetics of elementary reactions;


• Physical research methods in catalysis;


• Application of chromatography in catalysis.

Practice

Research and pre-diploma internships are real opportunities for students to try themselves as research chemists. Interships included in the curriculum are carried out on the basis of scientific laboratories and centers of the Joint Institute of Chemical Research, as well as in collaboration with leading universities:

• Scientific center Crystal Chemistry and Structural Analysis;


• Scientific center Cluster of streamlined synthesis of natural compounds;


• Scientific center Microwave-assisted Organic Synthesis;


• A.N. Nesmeyanov Institute of Organoelement Compounds of Russian Academy of Sciences (INEOS RAS);


• A.V. Topchiev Institute of Petrochemical Synthesis, RAS (TIPS RAS).

Teaching practice is carried out on the basis of al-Farabi Kazakh National University.

Students of the Master's program participate in research grants. Cooperation with leading Russian universities in terms of joint research projects is widely used. There is an opportunity for international cooperation and study abroad.

Career

Graduates of the master's degree program Modern integrative chemistry direction 04.04.01 Chemistry are able to solve tasks of scientific activity in the field of chemical and related fields, requiring specialists with higher chemical education. Graduates of the program can work as:

• employees of scientific and educational organizations, laboratories of chemical, biochemical, chemical and pharmaceutical industries;


• researchers in scientific and educational organizations;


• teachers.