Sally Brooker

Sally Brooker MNZM
Brooker in 2017
Nationality	New Zealand
Alma mater	University of Canterbury
Known for	Chemistry of transition metals and macrocycles
Scientific career
Fields	Inorganic chemistry
Institutions	University of Otago
Thesis	Synthesis and characterisation of polynuclear complexes with macrocyclic and related ligands  (1989)

Sally Anne Brooker MNZM is a New Zealand inorganic chemist. She has been a full professor at the University of Otago since 2006. ^{[1] [2] [3]}

Education

Brooker was educated at Hawarden Area School in North Canterbury from 1970 to 1982, ^[4] and was dux of the school in her final year there. ^[5] She went on to study chemistry at the University of Canterbury, first graduating Bachelor of Science with first-class honours, and then completing a PhD titled Synthesis and characterisation of polynuclear complexes with macrocyclic and related ligands under the supervision of Vickie McKee in 1989. ^{[4] [6]}

Academic and research career

After a period of post-doctoral research with George Sheldrick at the University of Göttingen, Brooker returned to New Zealand to take up a lectureship in chemistry at the University of Otago in 1991. ^{[4] [7]} She rose to become a full professor in 2006. ^[7]

Brooker's research is in the fields of transition-metal and macrocyclic chemistry. ^[2] Her work has included the development of molecular switches and molecular magnets, with potential application in nanodevices. ^[8]

Honours and awards

In the 2017 Queen's Birthday Honours, Brooker was appointed a Member of the New Zealand Order of Merit, for services to science. ^{[9] [10]} Later that year, she won the Hector Medal from the Royal Society of New Zealand. ^{[8] [11] [12]} Also in 2017, Brooker was selected as one of the Royal Society Te Apārangi's "150 women in 150 words", celebrating the contributions of women to knowledge in New Zealand. ^[13]

Brooker was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of New Zealand in 2007, and a Fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry in 2011. ^[8] She is also a Fellow of the New Zealand Institute of Chemistry. ^[4] In October 2019, Brooker was appointed one of seven inaugural sesquicentennial distinguished chairs, or poutoko taiea, at Otago University. ^[14] She was awarded the University's Distinguished Research Medal in 2015. ^[15]

Selected works

• Klingele, Marco H.; Brooker, Sally (2003). "The coordination chemistry of 4-substituted 3, 5-di (2-pyridyl)-4H-1, 2, 4-triazoles and related ligands". Coordination Chemistry Reviews. 241 (1–2): 119–132. doi:10.1016/s0010-8545(03)00049-3.
• Feltham, Humphrey L.C.; Brooker, Sally (2014). "Review of purely 4f and mixed-metal nd-4f single-molecule magnets containing only one lanthanide ion". Coordination Chemistry Reviews. 276: 1–33. doi:10.1016/j.ccr.2014.05.011.
• Beckmann, Udo; Brooker, Sally (2003). "Cobalt (II) complexes of pyridazine or triazole containing ligands: spin-state control". Coordination Chemistry Reviews. 245 (1–2): 17–29. doi:10.1016/s0010-8545(03)00030-4.
• Feltham, Humphrey L.C.; Lan, Yanhua; Klöwer, Frederik; Ungur, Liviu; Chibotaru, Liviu F.; Powell, Annie K.; Brooker, Sally (2011). "A non‐sandwiched macrocyclic monolanthanide single‐molecule magnet: the key role of axiality". Chemistry – A European Journal . 17 (16): 4362–4365. doi:10.1002/chem.201100438. PMID   21432925.
• Brooker, Sally (2001). "Complexes of thiophenolate-containing Schiff-base macrocycles and their amine analogues". Coordination Chemistry Reviews. 222 (1): 33–56. doi:10.1016/s0010-8545(01)00300-9.
• Rodriguez-Jimenez, Santiago; Yang, Mingrui; Stewart, Ian; Garden, Anna L.; Brooker, Sally (2017). "A simple method of predicting spin state in solution". Journal of the American Chemical Society . 139 (50): 18392–18396. doi:10.1021/jacs.7b11069. PMID   29156884.

References

1. Chemistry, Department of. "Professor Sally Brooker". www.otago.ac.nz.
2. "Brooker's Bunch - Transition Metal and Macrocyclic Chemistry". blogs.otago.ac.nz.
3. "Professor Sally Brooker". 9 February 2019.
4. Brooker, Sally (24 April 2015). "Spin crossover with thermal hysteresis: practicalities and lessons learnt". Chemical Society Reviews. 44 (10): 2880–2892. doi: 10.1039/C4CS00376D . PMID   25907385.
5. "Hurunui College newsletter" (PDF). Hurunui College. 20 June 2016. Retrieved 24 September 2018.
6. Brooker, Sally (1989). Synthesis and characterisation of polynuclear complexes with macrocyclic and related ligands (Doctoral thesis). UC Research Repository, University of Canterbury. doi:10.26021/7777. hdl:10092/7566.
7. "University staff" (PDF). University of Otago Calendar. 2018. p. 33. Retrieved 24 September 2018.
8. "2017 Hector Medal: Designing chemical computers and molecular magnets". Royal Society Te Apārangi.
9. "Queen's Birthday honours list 2017". Department of the Prime Minister and Cabinet. 5 June 2017. Retrieved 3 September 2018.
10. "Queen's Birthday honours: Southern recipients". Otago Daily Times . 5 June 2017.
11. "2017 Hector Medal presentation to Professor Sally Brooker". Royal Society Te Apārangi.
12. "Role in 'greening' planet earns award". Otago Daily Times . 11 October 2017.
13. "Sally Brooker". Royal Society Te Apārangi. Retrieved 10 May 2021.
14. Gibb, John (1 October 2019). "University's prestigious poutoko taiea initiative recognises leading scholars". Otago Daily Times . Retrieved 8 October 2019.
15. University of Otago. "Research Awards - Past Recipients". www.otago.ac.nz. Retrieved 28 November 2021.