Organic Synthesis: Oxidation and reduction methods, stereochemistry and products from hydride and dissolving-metal reductions. Synthetic organic applications of phosphorus, silicon, titanium, copper, palladium and ruthenium. Chemistry of heterocycles. Mechanisms of molecular rearrangements involving carbo-cations, electron deficient nitrogen and oxygen species, and of carbonyl compounds. Experimental and instrumental methods and techniques of organic chemistry. Nano Synthesis methods: Electrosynthesis, chemical, thermal and microwave synthesis. Thin Film Deposition Methods. Thermal chemical vapor deposition (CVD), catalytic synthesis and plasma synthesis. Tuning nanoparticles sizes, shapes and dimensionality by appropriate choice of the chemical precursors and/or of the reaction’s conditions. Properties of nanomaterials: Chemical, electrochemical, spectroscopic, microscopic, mechanical, electrical and optical properties of materials. Synthetic nanomaterials: Ceramics, glasses, polymers, fullerenes, nanotubes, graphenes, carbon nanotubes, metal oxides and catalysts (PGMs etc), nanocrystals, nanocomposites, nano-alloys, quantum dots, zeolites, metal-organic frameworks.