We are delighted to announce the successful renewal of our Gold Athena SWAN Award.

The Department of Chemistry has placed 5th in the Times and Sunday Times Good University Guide 2025 for the subject of Chemistry.

An academic from the Department of Chemistry is part of a new national hub that will harness the research and innovation community’s collective knowledge to address diversity challenges specific to the engineering, physical and mathematical sciences (EPMS) sector.

New research shows the success of York-led science education programme

Researchers in the Department of Chemistry at the University of York, in collaboration with teams at the University of Seville and St Andrews, have used single-crystal to single-crystal organometallic chemistry to isolate and structurally characterise the first known gold-acetylene complex.

The Automation and Robotics for Chemistry (ARC) at the University of York has combined modern chemical technologies and data sciences to pave the way for advancing cross-coupling reactions.

Researchers at the University of York are to be part of BBSRC-funded project to investigate the use Artificial Intelligence for structural determination of biomolecules.

The University of York is to be part of a major EPSRC-funded research initiative to make chemical and polymer production more sustainable.

Chemistry at York is ranked 7th in the UK according to the latest release of the Complete University Guide league tables (2025).

The University of York is set to transform the landscape of MRI scans through a groundbreaking partnership with the innovative U.S-based tech company, Vizma.AI

An international team of researchers from the University of York, USA, Spain, Argentina, China, Denmark and Italy have successfully analysed dinosaur eggshell fragments to find ancient amino acids, the building blocks of proteins.

York undergraduate student Amy McDermott was part of the 2nd place team in the recent 11th National Retrosynthesis Competition.

Chemists at the University of York will help train the next generation of chemists in the skills needed for a greener, more sustainable future through two Centres of Doctoral Training announced today.

Researchers in the Departments of Chemistry and Biology have discovered a previously unreported class of enzymes, involved in the assembly of a sugar on the surface of a pathogenic bacteria that targets vulnerable patients in hospital.

A team of researchers from the Department of Chemistry have developed a new synthetic method which enables the simple synthesis of a wide range of biologically important cyclic molecules.

Congratulations to Year 4 undergraduate students Grace and Pip who have been awarded a Department of Chemistry “MChem Communicator of the Year” (McCOY) Prize.

Two recent research papers from York scientists have demonstrated the emission of indoor air pollution given off when cooking or cleaning indoors.

The United Nations Environment Programme has published a new specialised manual on green chemistry education based on research at the Department of Chemistry.

Recent research from the Department of Chemistry has reported a new synthetic approach to facilitate the modification of water-soluble biomolecules with water-insoluble carboxylic acids. Ultimately, this approach will help create a wide range of bioconjugates with therapeutic applications.

A video made by a third-year undergraduate chemistry student has proved a hit on YouTube, with over 53,000 views in the first month.