The activities of the scientific circle involve all students who are interested in the problems of modern chemical technology, who want to get a solid general theoretical basis and acquire practical research skills that will help them in training and scientific activities in other departments and in their future profession. In the circle, students from the first year already learn the basics of research activities: working with scientific literature, introducing information on a selected topic to world databases, setting tasks, performing the experimental part of the study, analyzing the data obtained. The results of the research work carried out by students are expressed in different forms: oral and poster reports, presentations, abstracts, scientific articles, speeches at student scientific conferences.

In the process of studying in a circle, students conduct scientific research in the framework of the following scientific directions of the department:

Development of synthesis technology and study of the biological activity of acetylene derivatives.

Acetylenic alcohols are valuable products with a wide range of practical applications: intermediates in the synthesis of odoriferous substances, medicines and vitamins, anticorrosive agents for protecting oil equipment, modifiers of motor fuels, emulsifiers, starting materials for the synthesis of monomers.

The advantage of the new technology for the production of acetylenic alcohols over the known ones lies in the safety, efficiency and higher intensity of the process: liquid ammonia (a toxic, irritating solvent that forms explosive mixtures with air) is not used, acetylene is used at atmospheric pressure, the process is carried out at a temperature close to room temperature , no harmful emissions and waste.

Development of technology for producing foaming agents for flotation processes of beneficiation of non-ferrous metal ores.

Currently, there is no production of flotation reagents in the Republic of Kazakhstan.

Due to the reduction in the amount of rich ores, ores with a low grade of the target metal are being supplied to concentrators more and more, which leads to the need for new flotation reagents capable of increasing the recoverability.

The solution to this problem is to carry out the following activities:

Creation of technology for the production of foaming agents, which increase the percentage of recovery of the target product;

Conducting tests at the processing plant of the Corporation «KazakhMys»;

Industrial production of foam reagents.

Development of methods for the synthesis of derivatives of oxyquinoline.

A procedure has been developed for the synthesis of ester derivatives of oxyquinoline in a petroleum distillate medium using sulfuric acid as a catalyst. The product yield is within 90%. The obtained water-soluble derivatives according to the results of the prediction of biological activity are characterized by antimicrobial and antifungal effects.

Synthesis of biologically active substances and study of their activity by stripping voltammetry.

The problem of the synthesis of new biologically active substances and the creation on their basis of new drugs with a complex of properties valuable for medicine is one of the most important tasks of modern organic, bioorganic and medicinal chemistry due to the ever increasing spread of new viral respiratory infections.

One of the promising ways in the development of new drugs is the search for new biologically active substances among the available natural compounds, their derivatives and modified analogs.

The creative potential of the student scientific circle of the Department of Chemical Technology and Ecology does not fade away, this is confirmed by the results that students demonstrate in competitions of student research papers.