The Christopher S. Foote Memorial Symposium

Program

  8:30 Continental Breakfast
  9:00 Opening Remarks (C. Rhodes, K. N. Houk)
  9:15 Harry Wasserman, Yale University. "From My Assistant to My Mentor: Applications of Singlet Oxygen to the Methodology of Organic Synthesis"
  9:50 Coffee Break
10:10 Alexander Greer, Brooklyn College, CUNY "Historical Perspectives of Chris Foote's Discovery of Singlet Oxygen"
 10:45 Ed Clennan, University of Wyoming "Mechanisms of Photochemically Induced Photooxygenation Reactions"
 11:20 Joan Valentine, University of California, Los Angeles "The Chemical Biology of Dioxygen Toxicity"
 12:00 Luncheon Celebration Foote's Contributions to Education, sponsored by Brooks/Cole Thomson
 2:00 David Schuster, New York University "Photophysical Pathways in Porphyrin/Fullerene Electron Donor- Acceptor Systems with Rotaxane and Catenane Architectures"
 2:35 Peter Ogilby, University of Aarhus "The Singlet Oxygen Microscope: Going Where Chris Always Wanted to Go - Inside a Single Cell"
 3:10 Coffee Break
 3:30 Cynthia Burrows, University of Utah "Mechanisms of DNA Damage: Chris's Role in the Great Mystery of Guanine Oxidation"
 4:05 Ken Houk, University of California, Los Angeles "Christopher Foote's 21st Century Work on How Singlet Oxygen Reacts: The Lasting Impact of a Brilliant Career"
 4:40  Closing Remarks