Penelope Brothers

Penelope Jane Brothers
Residence New Zealand
Alma mater

University of Auckland (B.Sc., 1978; M.Sc., 1979);

Stanford University (Ph.D., 1985)
Scientific career
Fields Organometallic complexes, porphyrins
Institutions University of Auckland
Thesis
Doctoral advisor James P. Collman

Penelope Jane Brothers is a New Zealand chemistry academic. She is currently a full professor at the University of Auckland, specializing in inorganic chemistry.[1]

Academic career

Brothers completed a Bachelor of Science and Master of Science at the University of Auckland, in 1978 and then 1979. Later that year, she traveled to Stanford University after receiving a Fulbright Program fellowship. There, she studied under James P. Collman and completed a 1985 PhD titled 'The organometallic chemistry of ruthenim and osmium porphyrin complexes.' [2] The next year, Brothers returned to the University of Auckland as a postdoctoral researcher, rising to full professor in 2009.[1][2] 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.[2]

In 2007, Brothers was named as a Fulbright Senior Scholar.[3] She is also on the editorial board of the journal Chemical Communications as Associate Editor.[2]

Selected works

  • Chang, John Yu-Chih, Guo-Liang Lu, Ralph J. Stevenson, Penelope J. Brothers, George R. Clark, K. Jane Botting, Dianne M. Ferry et al. "Cross-bridged cyclen or cyclam Co (III) complexes containing cytotoxic ligands as hypoxia-activated prodrugs." Inorganic Chemistry 52, no. 13 (2013): 7688-7698.
  • 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.

References

  1. 1 2 "Professor Penelope Brothers - The University of Auckland". www.chemistry.auckland.ac.nz.
  2. 1 2 3 4 "Professor Penny Brothers". MacDiarmid Institute. Retrieved 2018-08-27.
  3. ↑ "New Zealand Research Scholar and Lecturer Alumni". www.fulbright.org.nz.
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