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 Tolman Award 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 978-0-495-38857-9).[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]
References
- ↑ 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
- ↑ 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.
- ↑ 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.