Bio

Song Lin grew up in Tianjin, China. After obtaining B.S. from Peking University in 2008, he pursued graduate studies at Harvard University working with Eric Jacobsen. He then carried out postdoctoral studies with Chris Chang at UC Berkeley. He started his independent career at Cornell University in 2016 and was promoted to Associate Professor in 2021 and Tisch University Professor in 2023. He then joined Stanford University as a Professor of Chemistry in 2026. Song has received several early-career awards, including the Sloan Fellowship, ACS Cope Scholar, National Fresenius Award, Tetrahedron Young Investigator Award, Thieme–IUPAC Prize, Cottrell Scholar Award, Camille Dreyfus Teacher-Scholar Award, NSF CAREER Award, MIT Technology Review Innovators Under 35, BMS Unrestricted Grant, Lilly Research Award, and EPA Green Chemistry Challenge. His dedication to education has been recognized with a Stephen and Margery Russell Distinguished Teaching Award from Cornell University and a Nobel Laureate Signature Award for Graduate Education in Chemistry from the American Chemical Society. He is currently an Associate Editor at Organic Letters, and he serves on the Editorial Advisory Board of Chem, Synlett, Tetrahedron, and Tetrahedron Letters as well as the Scientific Advisory Board of OWiC Technologies.

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2025-26 Courses

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  • Ni(DQ)<sub>2</sub>: A Useful Gateway to Zero-Valent Nickel Complexes ORGANOMETALLICS He, W., Fang, S., Yang, S., Kim, N., Lu, Z., Rubel, C. Z., Bailey, J., Gembicky, M., Lin, S., Wisniewski, S. R., Engle, K. M. 2026; 45 (4): 385-390

    Abstract

    We report the convenient synthesis of Ni(DQ)2 (DQ = duroquinone) from readily available Ni(II) and Ni(0) precursors, guided by DFT calculations. By virtue of its π-accepting homoleptic ligand environment, Ni(DQ)2 undergoes facile ligand exchange with phosphine, bis-nitrogen, and diene ligands and thus represents a convenient Ni(0) source in synthetic organometallic chemistry. As a precatalyst, Ni(DQ)2 is found be a competent air-stable precursor for emerging methodology where Ni(COD)(DQ) is ineffective (COD = 1,5-cyclooctadiene).

    View details for DOI 10.1021/acs.organomet.5c00450

    View details for Web of Science ID 001688907600001

    View details for PubMedID 42312076

    View details for PubMedCentralID PMC13271661

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