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George A. Petersson

Distinguished Adjunct Professor of Chemistry
​Theory/Computation
Office: SERC 706
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Biography





Selected Awards
Ph.D. California Institute of Technology

B.Sc. The City College of New York

Kitasato Medal, ​John S. Burlew Award from the Connecticut Valley Section of the American Chemical Society

Interests

Electron correlation in atoms and molecules, particularly as applied to transition states for chemical reactions. Development of efficient computational models for thermochemistry, kinetics, and reactive dynamics. The nature of bond energies. Computational spectroscopy in collaborations with Experimental Chemists.

Select Publications

“Synthesis and characterization of fluorescent amino acid dimethylaminoacridonylalanine (PJ-11498VP)” Chloe M. Jones, George A. Petersson, and E. James Petersson, Arkivoc 2021,97 (2021).

“Three Body Dispersion Corrections to the Spherical Atom Model: the PFD-3B Density Functional” George A. Petersson, Michael J. Frisch, Frank Dobek, and Barbaro Zulueta, J.  Phys. Chem. 124, 10296 (2020).

"UV Photolysis of Pyrazine and the Production of Hydrogen Isocyanide" Michael Wilhelm, George Petersson, Jonathan Smith, Drew Behrendt, Jianqiang Ma, Laura Letendre, Dong Qin, and Hai-Lung Dai, J. Phys. Chem. A (2018).

“Improving the Fluorescent Probe Acridonylalanine Through a Combination of Theory and Experiment” Itthipol Sungwienwong, John J. Ferrie, Joomyung V. Jun, Chunxiao Liu, Taylor M. Barrett, Zachary M. Hostetler Naoya Ieda Amara Hendricks, Anand K. Muthusamy, Rahul M. Kohli, David M. Chenoweth, George A. Petersson, and E. James Petersson, J. Phys. Org. Chem. 31, 3813 (2018).

 “γ-Ionylidene-type sesquiterpenoids possessing antimicrobial activity against Porphyromonas gingivalis from Phellinus linteus and their absolute structure determination” Tatsuya Shirahata, Chieko Ino, Fumi Mizuno, Yoshihisa Asada, Masao Hirotani1, George A Petersson, Satoshi Ōmura, Takafumi Yoshikawa, and Yoshinori Kobayashi,  J. Antibiot. 70, 695–698 (2017).

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