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Penelope Brothers

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.^[2]

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.^[1] There, she studied under James P. Collman and completed a 1985 PhD titled 'The organometallic chemistry of ruthenium and osmium porphyrin complexes.' ^[3] The next year, Brothers returned to the University of Auckland as a postdoctoral researcher, rising to full professor in 2009.^[2][3] 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.^[3]

In 2007, Brothers was named as a Fulbright Senior Scholar.^[4] She is also on the editorial board of the journal Chemical Communications as associate editor.^[3]

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.^[5]

• 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.
• Brothers, Penelope J., and Mathias O. Senge. "Fundamentals of Porphyrin Chemistry: A 21st Century Approach." Wiley (2022). ISBN 978-1-119-12931-8.

• Publications by Penelope BrothersatResearchGate