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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. He published over 250 research articles and has an h-index of 67. He was also known for his textbook Organic Chemistry (with Brown and Iverson).

The American Chemical Society gave him their Baekeland award in 1975, named him a Cope Scholar in 1994, and gave him the Tolman Award in 1995. In 2000 an international symposium in honor of his 65th birthday was held in Hawaii. The Christopher S. Foote Chair of chemistry at UCLA, currently held by Neil Garg, 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."

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, oxidative damage of DNA.

C₇₀ and C₆₀ as photosensitizers

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References

1. Greer, A. "Christopher Foote's Discovery of the Role of Singlet Oxygen (O₂, Δ_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. Archived 2007-06-09 at the Wayback Machine
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.

• 1935 births
• 2005 deaths
• 20th-century American chemists
• Yale University alumni
• Harvard Graduate School of Arts and Sciences alumni
• University of California, Los Angeles faculty