Christopher Spencer Foote

Christopher Spencer Foote
BornJune 5, 1935
Hartford, Connecticut
DiedJune 13, 2005 (2005-06-14) (aged 70)
Santa Monica, California
NationalityAmerican
Alma materYale University, Harvard University
Known forSinglet oxygen
AwardsAlfred P. Sloan Foundation Fellowship
Guggenheim Fellowship
Arthur C. Cope Scholar Award
Tolman Award
Fulbright Award
Scientific career
FieldsChemistry
InstitutionsUCLA
Doctoral advisorRobert 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 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]

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.

  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. ^ ISI Science Citation Index citation report excluding meeting abstracts and corrections. Accessed Feb 2, 2009.
  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