Alison R. Fout

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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
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

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]

Recognition

As an independent investigator, she received the following recognition:

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.

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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.