Christopher Spencer Foote

Christopher Spencer Foote
Christopher Spencer Foote
Born	June 5, 1935; Hartford, Connecticut
Died	June 13, 2005 (aged 70); Santa Monica, California
Nationality	American
Alma mater	Yale University, Harvard University
Known for	Singlet oxygen
Awards	Alfred P. Sloan Foundation Fellowship; Guggenheim Fellowship; Arthur C. Cope Scholar Award; Tolman Award; Fulbright Award
	Scientific career
Fields	chemist
Institutions	UCLA
Doctoral advisor	Robert Burns Woodward

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).[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 Award in 1995. 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 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."[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]

References

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
ISI Science Citation Index citation report excluding meeting abstracts and corrections. Accessed Feb 2, 2009.
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.
UCLA Chemist Christopher Spencer Foote Died at Age 70, UCLA Chemistry Department.
Photos from Foote symposium. Archived 2007-06-09 at the Wayback Machine
Harvard HOLLIS search, author: Christopher Spencer Foote, Thesis (Ph. D.)--Harvard University, 1962.
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.
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.

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[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.

[anie-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.