Alison R. Fout

Alison R. Fout
Alma mater
Awards
  • Alfred P. Sloan Fellowship
  • 2014 NSF CAREER award
  • 2015 Camille and Henry Dreyfus Teacher-Scholar
Scientific career
FieldsSynthetic Inorganic and Organometallic Chemistry
InstitutionsTexas A&M University, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
Thesis (2009)
Doctoral advisorDaniel J. Mindiola
Other academic advisors
  • Daniel Rabinowich (M.S.)
  • Theodore Betley (Post-Doc)
Websitefoutgroup.squarespace.com

Alison R. Fout is an American inorganic chemist at the Texas A&M University where she holds the rank of professor. She has contributed to the discovery of new catalysts with NHC ligands.[1] She discovered a family of catalysts that reduce oxyanions such as nitrate, perchlorate to nitric oxide and chloride, respectively.[2]

  1. ^ Tokmic, Kenan; Greer, Rianna B.; Zhu, Lingyang; Fout, Alison R. (2018). "13C NMR Signal Enhancement Using Parahydrogen-Induced Polarization Mediated by a Cobalt Hydrogenation Catalyst". Journal of the American Chemical Society. 140 (44): 14844–14850. doi:10.1021/jacs.8b08614. PMID 30358390. S2CID 53029454.
  2. ^ Matson, Ellen M.; Park, Yun Ji; Fout, Alison R. (2014). "Facile Nitrite Reduction in a Non-heme Iron System: Formation of an Iron(III)-Oxo". Journal of the American Chemical Society. 136 (50): 17398–17401. doi:10.1021/ja510615p. PMID 25470029.