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Biography
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., ISBN 978-0-495-38857-9).
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.
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."
- Harvard HOLLIS search, author: Christopher Spencer Foote, Thesis (Ph. D.)--Harvard University, 1962.
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.