CSIR-Indian Institute of Chemical Technology, Hyderabad (CSIR-IICT) is a premier R&D institute under the aegis of Council of Scientific and Industrial Research, Ministry of Science and Technology, New Delhi. The CSIR-Indian Institute of Chemical Technology, an ISO 9001: 2000 institute, has made significant contributions in the last seven decades in chemical science and technology domain.

Major areas of research at CSIR-IICT are: natural products chemistry, agrochemicals including pheromone chemicals, drugs and intermediates, organic coatings and polymers, catalysis and material science, lipid science and technology, chemical biology, analytical chemistry, environmental sciences, coal, gas and energy, chemical genomics and biotechnology and chemical process engineering.

CSIR-IICT has state-of-the-art analytical facilities like National Mol Bank Facility, HTS for chemical library generation and screening, LCMS, NMR including solid-state NMR, XRD, SEM, TEM, AFM, ESCA, laser Raman, ultrafast laser spectroscopy, fluorescence correlation spectroscopy, automated and robotic synthesisers, etc.

IICT provides technologies (Lab/bench/pilot plant scale) for: Agrochemicals/Pheromone Chemicals, Drugs & Pharmaceuticals, Lipid Science & Technology, Surface Coatings/Adhesives/Polymers,Industrial Organic/Inorganic Chemicals/Intermediates/Specialty Chemicals, Catalysis & Advanced/Specialty Materials, Fluoro Organic Chemicals,Coal, Biomass Gasification and Bio-diesel, and Biotechnology Based Products IICT provides knowledge based services for: Physico-chemical and thermal characterization of heterogeneous and homogeneous catalysts, Custom synthesis, Molecular modelling for drug design, Combinatorial libraries for analoguing, Drug master files, Chemical finger printing, Invitro & invivo entomological/toxicological/pharmacological screening of bioactive molecules, Basic/detail engineering packages for pilot plant and commercial plant, Pilot plant facilities for upscaling of processes, Process simulation, optimisation and control, Process safety management, and Catalytic reaction engineering.

Contact: CSIR - Indian Institute of Chemical Technology, Hyderabad. Tel: 040-27193030, 27193943. Fax: 91-40-27160387, 27163943. Email: director@iict.res.in, headbma@iict.res.in