Alison R. Fout

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]

Alison R. Fout
Alma mater	B.S. – Gannon College, 1998 – 2002 M.S. – University of North Carolina, Charlotte, 2002–2004 Ph.D. – Indiana University, 2006 – 2009 Postdoctoral Fellow – Harvard University, 2010 – 2012
Awards	Alfred P. Sloan Fellowship 2014 NSF CAREER award 2015 Camille and Henry Dreyfus Teacher-Scholar
Scientific career
Fields	Synthetic Inorganic and Organometallic Chemistry
Institutions	Texas A&M University, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Thesis	(2009)
Doctoral advisor	Daniel J. Mindiola
Other academic advisors	Daniel Rabinowich (M.S.) Theodore Betley (Post-Doc)
Website	foutgroup.squarespace.com

Recognition

As an independent investigator, she received the following recognition:

• 2017 Camille and Henry Dreyfus Teacher Scholar Award
• 2016–2021 U. S. Department of Energy Early Career Research Program
• 2015 Marion Milligan Mason Award for Women in the Chemical Sciences, AAAS
• 2015 Sloan Research Fellowship
• 2014 National Science Foundation CAREER Awards

She also was recognized from scientific journals. In 2016, she received recognition as New Talent Americas from Dalton Transactions. That same year, the American Chemical Society awarded her as an Emerging Investigator in Bioinorganic Chemistry. In 2019 she received the Thieme Chemistry Journals Award. In 2017 she presented the Dalton Lectures at the University of California, Berkeley. At the 2018 Metals in Biology Gordon Conference, she received the Ed Stiefel Young Investigator Award.

References

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.