:Sally Brooker
{{Short description|New Zealand inorganic chemist}}
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Sally Anne Brooker {{post-nominals|country=NZL|MNZM}} is a New Zealand inorganic chemist. She has been a full professor at the University of Otago since 2006.{{cite web|url=https://www.otago.ac.nz/chemistry/people/otago666540.html|title=Professor Sally Brooker|first=Department of|last=Chemistry|website=www.otago.ac.nz}}{{cite web|url=https://blogs.otago.ac.nz/brooker/|title=Brooker's Bunch - Transition Metal and Macrocyclic Chemistry|website=blogs.otago.ac.nz}}{{cite web|url=http://macdiarmid.ac.nz/member/brooker-sally/|title=Professor Sally Brooker|date=9 February 2019 }}
Education
Brooker was educated at Hawarden Area School in North Canterbury from 1970 to 1982,{{cite journal |last=Brooker |first=Sally |date=24 April 2015 |title=Spin crossover with thermal hysteresis: practicalities and lessons learnt |journal=Chemical Society Reviews |volume=44 |issue= 10|pages=2880–2892 |doi=10.1039/C4CS00376D |pmid=25907385 |doi-access=free }} and was dux of the school in her final year there.{{cite web |url=https://mailer.kiwischools.co.nz/files/publications/1135/No%2018%20Hurunui%20College%20Newsletter%2016th%20June.pdf |title=Hurunui College newsletter |date=20 June 2016 |publisher=Hurunui College |access-date=24 September 2018}} 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.{{cite thesis |last=Brooker |first=Sally |year=1989 |type=Doctoral thesis |title=Synthesis and characterisation of polynuclear complexes with macrocyclic and related ligands |publisher=UC Research Repository, University of Canterbury |hdl=10092/7566 |doi=10.26021/7777 |url=https://ir.canterbury.ac.nz/handle/10092/7566}}
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.{{cite book |chapter=University staff |title=University of Otago Calendar |chapter-url=https://www.otago.ac.nz/study/otago672326.pdf |access-date=24 September 2018 |year=2018 |page=33}} She rose to become a full professor in 2006.
Brooker's research is in the fields of transition-metal and macrocyclic chemistry. Her work has included the development of molecular switches and molecular magnets, with potential application in nanodevices.
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.{{cite web |url=https://www.dpmc.govt.nz/publications/queens-birthday-honours-list-2017 |title=Queen's Birthday honours list 2017 |date=5 June 2017 |publisher=Department of the Prime Minister and Cabinet |access-date=3 September 2018}}{{Cite web|url=https://www.odt.co.nz/news/national/queens-birthday-honours-southern-recipients-0|title=Queen's Birthday honours: Southern recipients|date=5 June 2017|website=Otago Daily Times }} Later that year, she won the Hector Medal from the Royal Society of New Zealand.{{cite web|url=https://royalsociety.org.nz/what-we-do/medals-and-awards/medals-and-awards-news/2017-hector-medal-designing-chemical-computers-and-molecular-magnets/|title=2017 Hector Medal: Designing chemical computers and molecular magnets|publisher=Royal Society Te Apārangi}}{{cite web|url=https://royalsociety.org.nz/news/2017-hector-medal-presentation-to-professor-sally-brooker/|title=2017 Hector Medal presentation to Professor Sally Brooker|publisher=Royal Society Te Apārangi}}{{cite news |url=https://www.odt.co.nz/news/dunedin/role-greening-planet-earns-award|title=Role in 'greening' planet earns award|date=11 October 2017|work=Otago Daily Times }} 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.{{Cite web|title=Sally Brooker|url=https://www.royalsociety.org.nz/150th-anniversary/150-women-in-150-words/1968-2017/sally-brooker/|access-date=2021-05-10|website=Royal Society Te Apārangi}}
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. She is also a Fellow of the New Zealand Institute of Chemistry. In October 2019, Brooker was appointed one of seven inaugural sesquicentennial distinguished chairs, or {{Lang|mi|poutoko taiea}}, at Otago University.{{Cite web|url=https://www.odt.co.nz/news/dunedin/campus/university-of-otago/universitys-prestigious-poutoko-taiea-initiative-recognises|title=University's prestigious poutoko taiea initiative recognises leading scholars|last=Gibb|first=John|date=2019-10-01|website=Otago Daily Times |language=en|access-date=2019-10-08}} She was awarded the University's Distinguished Research Medal in 2015.{{Cite web|last=University of Otago|title=Research Awards - Past Recipients|url=https://www.otago.ac.nz/research/awards/otago609095.html|access-date=2021-11-28|website=www.otago.ac.nz|language=en-nz}}
Selected works
- {{cite journal |last1=Klingele |first1=Marco H. |first2=Sally |last2=Brooker |title=The coordination chemistry of 4-substituted 3, 5-di (2-pyridyl)-4H-1, 2, 4-triazoles and related ligands |journal=Coordination Chemistry Reviews |volume=241 |issue=1–2 |year=2003 |pages=119–132 |doi=10.1016/s0010-8545(03)00049-3}}
- {{cite journal |last1=Feltham |first1=Humphrey L.C. |first2=Sally |last2=Brooker |title=Review of purely 4f and mixed-metal nd-4f single-molecule magnets containing only one lanthanide ion |journal=Coordination Chemistry Reviews |volume=276 |year=2014 |pages=1–33 |doi=10.1016/j.ccr.2014.05.011}}
- {{cite journal |last1=Beckmann |first1=Udo |first2=Sally |last2=Brooker |title=Cobalt (II) complexes of pyridazine or triazole containing ligands: spin-state control |journal=Coordination Chemistry Reviews |volume=245 |issue=1–2 |year=2003 |pages=17–29 |doi=10.1016/s0010-8545(03)00030-4}}
- {{cite journal |last1=Feltham |first1=Humphrey L.C. |first2=Yanhua |last2=Lan |first3=Frederik |last3=Klöwer |first4=Liviu |last4=Ungur |first5=Liviu F. |last5=Chibotaru |first6=Annie K. |last6=Powell |first7=Sally |last7=Brooker |title=A non‐sandwiched macrocyclic monolanthanide single‐molecule magnet: the key role of axiality |journal=Chemistry – A European Journal |volume=17 |issue=16 |year=2011 |pages=4362–4365 |doi=10.1002/chem.201100438|pmid=21432925 }}
- {{cite journal |last=Brooker |first=Sally |title=Complexes of thiophenolate-containing Schiff-base macrocycles and their amine analogues |journal=Coordination Chemistry Reviews |volume=222 |issue=1 |year=2001 |pages=33–56 |doi=10.1016/s0010-8545(01)00300-9}}
- {{cite journal |last1=Rodriguez-Jimenez |first1=Santiago |last2=Yang |first2=Mingrui |last3=Stewart |first3=Ian |last4=Garden |first4=Anna L. |last5=Brooker |first5=Sally |title=A simple method of predicting spin state in solution |journal=Journal of the American Chemical Society |volume=139 |issue=50 |year=2017 |pages=18392–18396 |doi=10.1021/jacs.7b11069|pmid=29156884 }}
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