Penelope Jane Brothers is a New Zealand chemistry academic. She is currently Director of the Research School of Chemistry at the
Australian National University, specializing in
inorganic chemistry.
Academic career
Brothers completed a
Bachelor of Science
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and
Master of Science at the
University of Auckland, in 1978 and then 1979. Later that year, she traveled to
Stanford University
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after receiving a
Fulbright Program fellowship.
There, she studied under
James P. Collman and completed a 1985
PhD titled ''
'The organometallic chemistry of ruthenium and osmium porphyrin complexes.
The next year, Brothers returned to the
University of Auckland as a
postdoctoral researcher, rising to full professor in 2009.
During her early career, she played a large role in establishing her field of
porphyrin chemistry; as of 2018, she is the only researcher who has studied the role of
boron in porphyrins or
corroles.
In 2007, Brothers was named as a
Fulbright Senior Scholar. She is also on the editorial board of the journal ''
Chemical Communications'' as associate editor.
Professor Brothers left the
University of Auckland to join
Australian National University in 2019, where she is currently Director of the Research School of Chemistry.
Selected works
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* Tonei, Deborah M., Lisa-Jane Baker, Penelope J. Brothers, George R. Clark, and David C. Ware. "Decarboxylation of an α-amino acid coordinated to cobalt (III): kinetic stabilisation and molecular structure of a Co–C–N three-membered ring incorporated into a cobalt (III) macrocyclic ligand complex."
Chemical Communications 23 (1998): 2593–2594.
* Brothers, Penelope J., George R. Clark, Helen R. Palmer, and David C. Ware. "Condensation reactions of cobalt amino acid complexes with formaldehyde: Preparation and crystal structures of cobalt complexes containing new hexadentate, pendant-arm macrocyclic and acyclic ligands."
Inorganic Chemistry 36, no. 24 (1997): 5470–5477.
* Brothers, Penelope J., and Warren R. Roper. "Transition-metal dihalocarbene complexes."
Chemical Reviews 88, no. 7 (1988): 1293–1326.
* Brothers, Penelope J., and Mathias O. Senge. "Fundamentals of Porphyrin Chemistry: A 21st Century Approach." Wiley (2022). .
References
External links
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Living people
Year of birth missing (living people)
Academic staff of the Australian National University
New Zealand women academics
Academic staff of the University of Auckland
University of Auckland alumni
Stanford University alumni
New Zealand chemists
New Zealand women chemists
Honorary Fellows of the Royal Society of New Zealand