Trilisa Perrine

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Name:
Trilisa Perrine
Title:
Professor of Chemistry
Phone:
419-772-2340
Office:
Meyer Hall of Science 259
Address:
525 South Main Street, Ada, OH, 45810
Research Interests
Physical/Computational/Quantum Chemistry
Employee degree:

BS, Western Michigan University

PHD, University of Chicago

Biography
  • Professor, Ohio Northern University, Ada, OH, 2019-present
  • Associate Professor, Ohio Northern University, Ada, OH, 2013-2019
  • Assistant Professor, Ohio Northern University, Ada, OH, 2008-2013
  • Postdoctoral Researcher/Instructor, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, 2005-2008

Education

  • Ph.D., Physical Chemistry, University of Chicago, Chicago, IL, 2005
  • B.S., Chemistry and Physics, Western Michigan University, Kalamazoo, 1999

Teaching Interests

  • Physical Chemistry
  • Introductory Chemistry
  • Computational/Theoretical Chemistry

Research Interests

  • Novel molecular electronics device design through computational modeling
  • Electronic structure of ground and excited states
  • Chemical education: enhancement of spatial reasoning skills through introductory chemistry courses
  • Computationally modeling transition states of organocatalyts
  • Computationally modeling donor and acceptor moleculesfor use in organic photovoltaic devices

Selected Publications

  • Graziano, B. J.; Collins, E. M.; McCutcheon, N. M.; Griffith, C. L.; Braunscheidel, N. M.; Perrine, T. M.; Wile, B. M. “Palladium complexes bearing κ²-N,N and κ³-N,N,O pendant amine bis(phenolate) ligands.”
  • Dunn, Z. L.*; Hammer, M. A.*; Topham, B. J.; Perrine, T. M. "Linker Effects in Porphyrin Polymeric Donor Materials for Photovoltaic Devices.".
  • Perrine, T. M.; et. al. Advances in molecular quantum chemistry contained in the Q-Chem 4 program package. .
  • Perrine, T. M. ; Dunietz, B. D. Contact geometry symmetry dependence of field effect gating in single molecule transistors. .
  • Trilisa M. Perrine, Timothy Berto, and Barry D. Dunietz, “Enhanced conductance via induced π-stacking interactions in cobalt(II) terpyridine bridged complexes," Journal of Physical Chemistry B2008,112, 16070.
  • Trilisa M. Perrine, Ron G. Smith, Christopher Marsh and Barry D. Dunietz, “Gating of single molecule transistors: Combining field-effect and chemical control," Journal of Chemical Physics2008, 128, 154706.
  • Trilisa M. Perrine and Barry D. Dunietz, “Conductance of a cobalt(II) terpyridine complex based molecular transistor: A computational analysis," Journal of Physical Chemistry A2008,112, 2043.
  • Trilisa M. Perrine and Barry D. Dunietz, “Carbonyl mediated conductance through metal bound peptides; a computational study," Nanotechnology2007,18, 424003.
  • Trilisa M. Perrine and Barry D. Dunietz, “Single-molecule field-effect transistors: A computational study of the effects of contact geometry and gating-field orientation on conductance-switching properties," Physical Review B2007,75, 195319.
  • Yunqing Chen, Alexander Prociuk, Trilisa Perrine, and Barry D. Dunietz, “Spin-dependent electronic transport through a porphyrin ring ligating an Fe(II) atom: An ab initio study," Physical Review B2006,74, 245320.
  • Trilisa M. Perrine, Rajat K. Chaudhuri and Karl F. Freed, "Quadratic Padé approximants and the intruder state problem of multrireference perturbation methods," .