Department of Chemistry was established soon after the inception of the Banaras Hindu University in 1916. Over the period, the Department has been nurtured under the able guidance of the eminent educationist and chemists like Prof. S. S. Bhatnagar, Prof. Bawa Kartar Singh, Prof. S. S. Joshi, Padmabhusan Prof. Gurubaksh Singh, Prof. B. M. Shukla, and so on. Many of the illustrious chemists namely, Bharat Ratna Prof. C. N. R. Rao, Prof. V. Krishnan, Prof. J. S. Yadav, Prof. Ganesh Pandey, Prof. D. Basavaiah, Prof. V. K. Singh, Prof. Sandeep Verma to name a few, are the alumni of the this department. Alumni of the Department are established in the posts of Director, Vice-chancellor and other higher administrative positions. Our alumni have honors like S. S. Bhatnagar Prize, B. M. Birla award, Swarna Jayanti Fellowship & Vijnan Ratna Award and have played vital role in the development of Science. To keep abreast with the advancement in frontier areas of Chemistry, our faculty members have been visiting the laboratories of renowned chemists of foreign countries (USA, UK, Germany, France, Japan, Australia, Canada,Spain, etc) and have collaborative projects with them. Research areas being pursued in the Department are mainly focused on the development of materials of technological and biological importance. Excellence in teaching and research has all along been its twin objectives.