Christopher Spencer Foote
| Christopher Spencer Foote | |
|---|---|
| Born | June 5, 1935 Hartford, Connecticut |
| Died |
June 13, 2005 (aged 70) 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 |
Alfred P. Sloan Foundation Fellowship
Guggenheim Fellowship
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 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. He was also known for his textbook Organic Chemistry (with Brown and Iverson; 5th ed., Brooks/Cole Pub Co., ).
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. The Christopher S. Foote Chair of chemistry at UCLA, currently held by Omar M. Yaghi, is named after him.
Diels-Alder reaction with singlet oxygen, oxidative damage of DNA.
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