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Christopher Spencer Foote

Christopher Spencer Foote

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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.[1] He published over 250 research articles and has an h-index of 67.[2] He was also known for his textbook Organic Chemistry (with Brown and Iverson).[3][4]

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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

Research and Teaching Appointments

Research

Reactive oxygen species

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

C70 and C60 as photosensitizers

References

  1. [1]
    Greer, A. "Christopher Foote's Discovery of the Role of Singlet Oxygen (1O2, 1Δg) in Photosensitized Oxidation Reactions", Accounts of Chemical Research 2006, 39, 797-804
  2. [2]
    ISI Science Citation Index citation report excluding meeting abstracts and corrections. Accessed Feb 2, 2009.
  3. [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. [4]
    UCLA Chemist Christopher Spencer Foote Died at Age 70, UCLA Chemistry Department.
  5. [5]
    Photos from Foote symposium. Archived 2007-06-09 at the Wayback Machine
  6. [6]
    Harvard HOLLIS search, author: Christopher Spencer Foote, Thesis (Ph. D.)--Harvard University, 1962.
  7. [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. [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.
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