Christopher Spencer Foote

Christopher Spencer Foote
Christopher Spencer Foote
Born	June 5, 1935 Hartford, Connecticut
Died	June 13, 2005 Santa Monica, California
Nationality	American
Fields	chemist
Institutions	UCLA
Alma mater	Yale University, Harvard University
Doctoral advisor	Robert Burns Woodward
Known for	Singlet oxygen
Notable awards	Alfred P. Sloan Foundation Fellowship Guggenheim Fellowship Arthur C. Cope Award Tolman Medal of Southern California Fulbright Award

Christopher Spencer Foote (June 5, 1935 – June 13, 2005) was a professor of chemistry at UCLA and an expert in reactive oxygen species, in particular, singlet oxygen.^[1] He published 259 articles, editorials, and notes. He was cited over 14,000 times with an average of 450 citations per year since 1989. He has an h-index of 67.^[2] He was also known for his textbook Organic Chemistry (with Brown and Iverson; 5th ed., Brooks/Cole Pub Co., ISBN 9780495388579).^[3][4]

The American Chemical Society gave him their Baekeland award in 1975, named him a Cope Scholar in 1994, and gave him the Tolman Medal in 1996. In 2000 an international symposium in honor of his 65th birthday was held in Hawaii.^[5] The Christopher S. Foote Chair of chemistry at UCLA, currently held by Omar M. Yaghi, is named after him.

Education

• B.S. Yale University (1957)
• Ph.D. Harvard University, Organic Chemistry, (1962)
  Research advisor, R.B. Woodward, "Angle strain and solvolytic reactivity in bridged bicyclic systems."^[6]

Research and Teaching Appointments

• Assistant Professor, University of California, Los Angeles, 1962–1969
• Professor, University of California, Los Angeles, 1969–2005

Research

Reactive oxygen species

Diels-Alder reaction with singlet oxygen,^[7] oxidative damage of DNA.^[8]

C₇₀ and C₆₀ as photosensitizers

References

1. ^ Greer, A. "Christopher Foote's Discovery of the Role of Singlet Oxygen (¹O₂, ¹Δ_g) in Photosensitized Oxidation Reactions", Accounts of Chemical Research 2006, 39, 797-804
2. ^ ISI Science Citation Index citation report excluding meeting abstracts and corrections. Accessed Feb 2, 2009.
3. ^ Jensen, Frank; Ogilby, Peter R. (2005), "Christopher S. Foote (1935-2005): Singlet Oxygen", Angewandte Chemie International Edition 44 (39): 6268, doi:10.1002/anie.200502934 .
4. ^ UCLA Chemist Christopher Spencer Foote Died at Age 70, UCLA Chemistry Department.
5. ^ Photos from Foote symposium.
6. ^ Harvard HOLLIS search, author: Christopher Spencer Foote, Thesis (Ph. D.)--Harvard University, 1962.
7. ^ Jenny Chen, K.N. Houk, and Christopher S. Foote * "Theoretical Study of the Concerted and Stepwise Mechanisms of Triazolinedione Diels-Alder Reactions" J. Am. Chem. Soc. 1998, 120, 12303-12309.
8. ^ Ferran Prat, K.N. Houk* and Christopher S. Foote*, "Effect of Guanine Stacking on the Oxidation of 8-Oxo-guanine in B-DNA," J. Am. Chem. Soc. 1998, 120, 845-846.

Persondata
Name	Foote, Christopher Spencer
Alternative names
Short description	Professor of chemistry
Date of birth	June 5, 1935
Place of birth	Hartford, Connecticut
Date of death	June 13, 2005
Place of death	Santa Monica, California