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Ashley Ringer

Group Position: Graduate Research Assistant

Currently: Postdoc, University of Maryland

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University of Maryland	E-mail: aringer@outerbanks.umaryland.edu
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PhD. Thesis

From Small to Big: Understanding Noncovalent Interactions in Chemical Systems from Quantum Mechanical Models

Awards

AAUW Dissertation Fellowship, 2008
Iota Sigma Pi Anna Louise Hoffman Award for Outstanding Graduate Research, 2008
National P.E.O. Fellowship, 2007
3rd Place Poster Award, SETCA 2006
Best Poster Award, 14th Conference on Current Trends in Computational Chemistry (Jackson, MS, 2005)
SETCA Graduate Student Poster Award, 2005
NSF Graduate Fellowship, 2005
DOE Computational Sciences Graduate Fellowship (declined), 2005
Georgia Tech Presidential Fellowship, 2005

Research Interests

Noncovalent interactions and crystal packing and structure
Noncovalent interactions and molecular biophysics
Substituent effects in pi-pi interactions

Representative Publications

``Coventional Strain Energy in Dimethyl-Substituted Cyclobutane and the Gem-Dimethyl Effect,'' A. L. Ringer and D. H. Magers, J. Org. Chem. 72, 2533-2537 (2007)

``Substituent Effects in Sandwich Configurations of Multiply Substituted Benzene Dimers Are Not Solely Governed By Electrostatic Control,'' A. L. Ringer and C. D. Sherrill, J. Am. Chem. Soc. 131, 4574-4575 (2009) (doi: 10.1021/ja809720r)

``First Principles Computation of Lattice Energies of Organic Solids: The Benzene Crystal,'' A. L. Ringer and C. D. Sherrill, Chem. Eur. J. 14, 2542-2547 (2008) (doi: 10.1002/chem.200701622)

``Low-Lying Singlet Excited States of Isocyanogen,'' A. L. Ringer, C. D. Sherrill, R. A. King, and T. D. Crawford, Int. J. Quantum Chem. 108, 1137-1140 (2008) (doi: 10.1002/qua.21586)

``Models of S/π Interactions in Protein Structures: Comparison of the H₂S-benzene Complex with PDB Data,'' A. L. Ringer, A. Senenko, and C. D. Sherrill, Protein Sci. 16, 2216-2223 (2007) (doi: 10.1110/ps.073002307)

``Aliphatic C--H/π Interactions: Methane-Benzene, Methane-Phenol, and Methane-Indole Complexes,'' A. L. Ringer, M. S. Figgs, M. O. Sinnokrot, and C. D. Sherrill, J. Phys. Chem. A 110, 10822-10828 (2006) (doi: 10.1021/jp0627401)

``The Effect of Multiple Substituents On Sandwich and T-Shaped π-π Interactions,'' A. L. Ringer, M. O. Sinnokrot, R. P. Lively, and C. D. Sherrill, Chem. Eur. J. 12, 3821-3828 (2006) (Abstract)(doi: 10.1002/chem.200501316)