Alexander Butlerov Chemistry Institute (former name Chemical Faculty of Kazan State University) — structural unit of Kazan (Volga region) Federal University, carries out research, development and academic activity in the area of basic and applied chemistry.

The division conducts research in the area of methods of electrochemical analysis using chemically modified electrodes and biosensors.

Postgraduate students and young staff of the department regularly participate in traineeship and international and domestic research projects provided by the RFBR, Russian Ministry of Education and Science and academic exchange programs.

Regularities of solvation reactions ligand, proton and electron exchange in solutions of coordination compounds were set.

Proposed model and physio-chemical basis of self-assembly of nanoscale of hyperbranched polymers, set new approaches to understanding the mechanisms of gene transfection and targeted drug delivery.

The head of the Department is Professor Igor S. Antipin, a corresponding member of the Russian Academy of Science, Doctor of Chemistry.

Over the last years staff members of the Department of Physical Chemistry made reports at conferences in many countries of the world: Canada, Poland, Republic of South Africa, Italy, Germany, Portugal, Czech Republic, USA, Ireland, Croatia, Spain, Sweden, Japan, Brazil.

In November, 2011 the Department of Chemical Education became a structural unit of A. M. Butlerov Institute of Chemistry of Kazan (Volga Region) Federal University.

International, All-Russian and regional research-to-practice conferences on chemical education organized by the Department are of the utmost interest.

The Department has received letters of gratitude from school principals for instructing students in research and methodology in their preparation for teaching practice.

Zinin, who studied abroad and learned new method of teaching chemistry and began to apply it in Kazan University.

Nowadays in the main hall of the museum lectures and seminars and defence of master's and doctoral theses are conducted.