# Penelope Brothers

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**Penelope Jane Brothers** is a New Zealand chemistry academic. She is currently Director of the Research School of Chemistry at the [Australian National University](/source/Australian_National_University), specializing in [inorganic chemistry](/source/Inorganic_chemistry).[2]

## Academic career

Brothers completed a [Bachelor of Science](/source/Bachelor_of_Science) and [Master of Science](/source/Master_of_Science) at the [University of Auckland](/source/University_of_Auckland), in 1978 and then 1979. Later that year, she traveled to [Stanford University](/source/Stanford_University) after receiving a [Fulbright Program](/source/Fulbright_Program) fellowship.[1] There, she studied under [James P. Collman](/source/James_P._Collman) and completed a 1985 [PhD](/source/PhD) titled *'The organometallic chemistry of ruthenium and osmium porphyrin complexes.'*[3] The next year, Brothers returned to the [University of Auckland](/source/University_of_Auckland) as a [postdoctoral researcher](/source/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](/source/Porphyrin) chemistry; as of 2018, she is the only researcher who has studied the role of [boron](/source/Boron) in porphyrins or [corroles](/source/Corrole).[3]

In 2007, Brothers was named as a [Fulbright](/source/Fulbright_Program) Senior Scholar.[4] She is also on the editorial board of the journal *[Chemical Communications](/source/Chemical_Communications)* as associate editor.[3]

Professor Brothers left the [University of Auckland](/source/University_of_Auckland) to join [Australian National University](/source/Australian_National_University) in 2019, where she is currently Director of the Research School of Chemistry.[5]

## Selected works

- Chang, John Yu-Chih; Lu, Guo-Liang; Stevenson, Ralph J.; Brothers, Penelope J.; Clark, George R.; Botting, K. Jane; Ferry, Dianne M.; Tercel, Moana; Wilson, William R.; Denny, William A.; Ware, David C. (2013-07-01). ["Cross-Bridged Cyclen or Cyclam Co(III) Complexes Containing Cytotoxic Ligands as Hypoxia-Activated Prodrugs"](https://pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/ic4006967). *Inorganic Chemistry*. **52** (13): 7688–7698. [doi:10.1021/ic4006967](https://doi.org/10.1021/ic4006967). [ISSN 0020-1669](https://www.worldcat.org/issn/0020-1669)
- 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](/source/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](/source/Inorganic_Chemistry_(journal)) 36, no. 24 (1997): 5470–5477.
- Brothers, Penelope J., and Warren R. Roper. "Transition-metal dihalocarbene complexes." [Chemical Reviews](/source/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.

## References

1. Brothers, Penelope J. (5 Feb 2008). ["Boron complexes of porphyrins and related polypyrrole ligands: unexpected chemistry for both boron and the porphyrin"](https://doi.org/10.1039/B714894A). *Chem. Commun.*. **2008** (18): 2090–2102. [doi:10.1039/B714894A](https://doi.org/10.1039/B714894A). [PMID 18438481](https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/18438481)

1. ["Professor Penelope Brothers – The University of Auckland"](http://www.chemistry.auckland.ac.nz/people/p-brothers). *www.chemistry.auckland.ac.nz*

1. ["Professor Penny Brothers"](http://macdiarmid.ac.nz/member/brothers-penny/). *MacDiarmid Institute for Advanced Materials and Nanotechnology*. Retrieved 2018-08-27.

1. ["New Zealand Research Scholar and Lecturer Alumni"](http://www.fulbright.org.nz/grantees-alumni/alumni/nzscholar/). *www.fulbright.org.nz*

1. ["Appointment of the new Director of the Research School of Chemistry"](https://chemistry.anu.edu.au/news-events/news/appointment-new-director-research-school-chemistry). *The Australian National University*

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