The Department of Chemistry is located in the College of Natural Sciences of the University of Puerto Rico, Río Piedras Campus. It is accredited by the American Chemical Society and by the Middle States Association of Universities and Colleges.
The department has a permanent teaching faculty of 27 (in tenured or tenure-track posistions), 17 of which are active researchers in the following areas: electrochemistry, organic synthesis, crystallography, photochemistry, biochemistry, bioinorganic chemistry, laser spectroscopy, marine natural products, theoretical chemistry and environmental analytical chemistry.