Christopher Spencer Foote

{{Short description|American chemist}}

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|birth_date = June 5, 1935

|birth_place = Hartford, Connecticut

|death_date = {{d-da|June 13, 2005|June 5, 1935}}

|death_place = Santa Monica, California

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|nationality = American

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|field = Chemistry

|work_institutions = UCLA

|alma_mater = Yale University, Harvard University

|doctoral_advisor = Robert Burns Woodward

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|known_for = Singlet oxygen

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|prizes = Alfred P. Sloan Foundation Fellowship
Guggenheim Fellowship

Arthur C. Cope Scholar Award
Tolman Award
Fulbright Award

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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.Greer, A. "Christopher Foote's Discovery of the Role of Singlet Oxygen (¹O₂, ¹Δ_g) in Photosensitized Oxidation Reactions", Accounts of Chemical Research 2006, 39, 797-804 He published over 250 research articles and has an h-index of 67.ISI Science Citation Index citation report excluding meeting abstracts and corrections. Accessed Feb 2, 2009. He was also known for his textbook Organic Chemistry (with Brown and Iverson).{{citation

| last1 = Jensen | first1 = Frank

| last2 = Ogilby | first2 = Peter R.

| doi = 10.1002/anie.200502934

| issue = 39

| journal = Angewandte Chemie International Edition

| page = 6268

| title = Christopher S. Foote (1935-2005): Singlet Oxygen

| volume = 44

| year = 2005| doi-access = free

}}.[http://www.chem.ucla.edu/news/C_S_Foote_obituary.htm UCLA Chemist Christopher Spencer Foote Died at Age 70], UCLA Chemistry Department.

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.[http://www.chem.ucla.edu/research/org/HAWAII/hawaii.html Photos from Foote symposium.] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070609130705/http://www.chem.ucla.edu/research/org/HAWAII/hawaii.html |date=2007-06-09 }} The Christopher S. Foote Chair of chemistry at UCLA, currently held by Neil Garg, is named after him.