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Dr Joe Brophy

 

Joseph John Brophy

B.Sc., Ph.D., D.Sc. (UNSW), Dip. Ed. (Monash), FRACI, C. Chem.
Honorary Visiting Fellow
E-mail: J.Brophy@unsw.edu.au

BIOGRAPHICAL DETAILS

Born 1943, Postdoctoral Fellow in Organic Chemistry, University of New Orleans, 1969-1970; Postdoctoral Research Fellow in Organic Chemistry, University of New South Wales, 1970-1971; Senior Tutor in Chemistry at Monash University, 1971-1976; Professional Officer, Organic Chemistry Mass Spectrometry Unit, UNSW, 1976-1990; Project Scientist, 1991-1994; Senior Project Scientist, 1994-present.

Member of the Standards Australia Committee on Essential Oils (CH/21); External laboratory assessor for NATA; Member of the editorial board of Journal of Essential Oil Research.

RESEARCH INTERESTS

Essential oils chemistry, particularly of the Australian Myrtaceae and Rutaceae and the more primitive families - the oil's relationship to the botany of the species. Insect chemistry; Natural product chemistry.

SELECTED PUBLICATIONS

  • Boland, D.J., Brophy, J.J. and House, A.P.N. (Eds.) Eucalyptus oils: Use, Chemistry, Distillation and Marketing. Inkata Press, Melbourne. 1991.
  • Brophy, J.J., Clezy, P.S., Leung, C.W.F. and Robertson, P.L. Secondary amines from the venom gland of the Dolichoderine ant Technomyrmes albipes. J. Chem. Ecol. 19: 2183-2192 (1993).
  • Brophy, J.J., Forster, P.I. and Goldsack, R.J. Diversity in Australian populations of Murraya paniculata (Rutaceae): New evidence from volatile leaf oils. Aust. Sys. Bot., 7: 409-418 (1994).
  • Brophy, J.J., Goldsack, R.J. Fookes, C.J.R. and Forster, P.I. The leaf essential oils of the genus Backhousia (Myrtaceae). J. Ess. Oil Res. 7: 237-254 (1995).
  • Brophy, J.J. and Doran, J.C. Essential Oils of Tropical Asteromyrtus, Callistemon andMelaleuca Species. ACIAR Monograph No. 40. 144pp (1996)
  • Brophy, J.J., Goldsack, R.J., Punruckvong, A., Forster. P.I. and Fookes, C.J.R. The essential oils of the genus Crowea (Rutaceae). J. Ess. Oil Res. 9, 401-409 (1997).
  • Brophy, J.J., Forster, P.I., Goldsack, R.J., Hibbert, D.B. and Punruckvong A. Variation in Callistemon viminalis (Myrtaceae): New evidence from volatile oils. Aust. Syst. Bot., 10, 1-13 (1997).
  • Bayly, M.J., Brophy, J.J., Forster, P.I., Goldsack, R.J. and Wilson, P.G. Reinstatement of Eriostemon banksii (Rutaceae), with a report on the composition of leaf essential oils in E. banksii and E. australasius s. str. Aust. Syst. Bot. 11: 13-22 (1998).
  • Brophy, J.J., Goldsack, R.J., Wu., M.Z., Fookes, C.J.R. and Forster, P.I. The chemistry of the Australian Gymnosperms. Part 2. The steam volatile oil of Wollemia nobilis and its comparison with other members of the Araucariaceae. Biochem. Syst. Ecol., 28, 563-578 (2000).
  • Asante, K.S., Brophy, J.J., Doran,. J.C., Goldsack, R.J., Hibbert, D.B. and Larmour, J.S., A comparitive study of the seedling leaf oils of the Spotted Gums (species of the Corymbia [Myrtaceae], section Politaria). Aust. J. Bot., 49, 55-66 (2001).