Christopher Spencer Foote (June 5, 1935 – June 13, 2005) was a professor of chemistry at

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and an expert in reactive oxygen species, in particular,

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. 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

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of 67. He was also known for his textbook ''Organic Chemistry'' (with Brown and Iverson).. The

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gave him their Baekeland award in 1975, named him a Cope Scholar in 1994, and gave him the

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in 1995. 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

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, is named after him.

Education

*B.S.

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(1957) *Ph.D.

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, Organic Chemistry, (1962)
Research advisor, R.B. Woodward, "Angle strain and solvolytic reactivity in bridged bicyclic systems."

Research and Teaching Appointments

*Assistant Professor,

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, 1962–1969 *Professor,

, 1969–2005

Research

Reactive oxygen species

Diels-Alder reaction with

, oxidative damage of DNA.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.

C₇₀ and C₆₀ as photosensitizers

References