Alison R. Fout

{{short description|American inorganic chemist}}

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| fields = Synthetic Inorganic and Organometallic Chemistry

| workplaces = Texas A&M University, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign

| alma_mater = {{ublist|B.S. – Gannon College, 1998 – 2002|M.S. – University of North Carolina, Charlotte, 2002–2004| Ph.D. – Indiana University Bloomington, 2006 – 2009|Postdoctoral Fellow – Harvard University, 2010 – 2012}}

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| thesis_year = 2009

| doctoral_advisor = Daniel J. Mindiola

| academic_advisors = {{ublist|Daniel Rabinowich (M.S.)|Theodore Betley (Post-Doc)}}

| awards = {{ublist|Alfred P. Sloan Fellowship|2014 NSF CAREER award|2015 Camille and Henry Dreyfus Teacher-Scholar}}

| website = {{URL|https://foutgroup.squarespace.com/}}

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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.{{cite journal|doi=10.1021/jacs.8b08614|title=13C NMR Signal Enhancement Using Parahydrogen-Induced Polarization Mediated by a Cobalt Hydrogenation Catalyst|year=2018|last1=Tokmic|first1=Kenan|last2=Greer|first2=Rianna B.|last3=Zhu|first3=Lingyang|last4=Fout|first4=Alison R.|journal=Journal of the American Chemical Society|volume=140|issue=44|pages=14844–14850|pmid=30358390|bibcode=2018JAChS.14014844T |s2cid=53029454 }} She discovered a family of catalysts that reduce oxyanions such as nitrate, perchlorate to nitric oxide and chloride, respectively.{{cite journal|doi=10.1021/ja510615p|title=Facile Nitrite Reduction in a Non-heme Iron System: Formation of an Iron(III)-Oxo|year=2014|last1=Matson|first1=Ellen M.|last2=Park|first2=Yun Ji|last3=Fout|first3=Alison R.|journal=Journal of the American Chemical Society|volume=136|issue=50|pages=17398–17401|pmid=25470029|bibcode=2014JAChS.13617398M }}