February 1, 2024 We have published in Journal of the American Chemical Society! “Co-Catalyzed Hydrofluorination of Alkenes: Photocatalytic Method Development and Electroanalytical Mechanistic Investigation”
Congratulations to Jinjian, Devin, Yi, and our collaborators at the Liang lab!
December 29, 2023 We have published in Organic Letters! “Electroreductive Radical Addition–Polar Cyclization Cascade to Access Cycloalkanes”
Congratulations to Yi, Jiachen, and Andy!
November 2, 2023 We have published in Chemical Science! “Enabling Al Sacrificial Anodes in Tetrahydrofuran Electrolytes for Reductive Electrosynthesis”
Congratulations to Weiyang, Yi, and our collaborators at the See lab!
November 1, 2023 Welcome Cindy!
We welcome postdoc Cindy Lee to our group.
November 1, 2023 We have published in Chemical Society Reviews! “A Tutorial on Asymmetric Electrocatalysis”
Congratulations to Jonas, Samson, and Kaining!
October 26, 2023 Welcome Nguyen, Nick, Sukwoo, and Zhiqiang!
We welcome graduate students Nguyen Le, Nicholas Cemalovic, and Sukwoo Lee as well as postdoc Zhiqiang Wei to our group.
October 6, 2023 We have published in Journal of the American Chemical Society! “Three-Component Cross-Electrophile Coupling: Regioselective Electrochemical Dialkylation of Alkenes”
Congratulations to Lingxiang, Yi, Wen, and our collaborators at the See lab!
September 7, 2023 Congratulations to Song for receiving the 2024 Arthur C. Cope Scholar Award!
September 1, 2023 We have published in Journal of the American Chemical Society! “Frustrated Radical Pairs in Organic Synthesis”
Congratulations to Minsoo, Zhipeng, Luiz, and Jesus!
August 2, 2023 We have published in Journal of the American Chemical Society! “Unraveling Hydrogen Atom Transfer Mechanisms with Voltammetry: Oxidative Formation and Reactivity of Cobalt Hydride”
Congratulations to Xiangyu and our collaborators at the Minteer and White labs!
July 28, 2023 We have published in JACS Au! “Improving the Mg Sacrificial Anode in Tetrahydrofuran for Synthetic Electrochemistry by Tailoring Electrolyte Composition”
Congratulations to Yi, Lingxiang, and our collaborators at the See and Qi labs!
July 27, 2023 We have published in Journal of the American Chemical Society! “Electrochemically Driven Deoxygenative Borylation of Alcohols and Carbonyl Compounds”
Congratulations to Weiyang and Yejin!
July 5, 2023 We have published in Nature! “Regioselective Aliphatic C–H Functionalization Using Frustrated Radical Pairs”
Congratulations to Zhipeng, Minsoo, Yi, Jon, Jesus, and our collaborators at Genentech!
June 30, 2023 We have published in Tetrahedron Letters! “Enantioselective Radical Cascade Cyclization via Ti-Catalyzed Redox Relay”
Congratulations to Peng and Wen!
June 22, 2023 Congratulations to Song for earning the 2023 Kyoto Rising-Star Lectureship Award!
June 12, 2023 Welcome Reggie!
We welcome undergraduate student Reggie Annor to our group.
June 7, 2023 Welcome Tianzhang!
We welcome graduate student Tianzhang Qiao to our group.
May 31, 2023 We have published in ACS Catalysis! “Deep Electroreductive Chemistry: Harnessing Carbon- and Silicon-Based Reactive Intermediates in Organic Synthesis”
Congratulations to Wen, Weiyang, Jesus, and Luiz!
May 18, 2023 We have published in Science! “Generality-Oriented Optimization of Enantioselective Aminoxyl Radical Catalysis”
Congratulations to Jonas, Samson, Juno, and our collaborators at the Miller and Sigman Labs!
May 1, 2023 Welcome Chenfei!
We welcome postdoc Chenfei Liu to our group.
April 21, 2023 We have published in Angewandte Chemie! “An Electrochemical Strategy to Synthesize Disilanes and Oligosilanes from Chlorosilanes”
Congratulations to Weiyang, Lingxiang, Yi, Luiz, and our collaborators at the Klausen Lab!
March 9, 2023 Song has been promoted to Tisch University Professor!
This promotion recognizes Song and the lab’s outstanding contributions to the field of organic electrochemistry and to the Cornell community. We are thankful to Cornell University for this honor.
February 23, 2023 We have published in Angewandte Chemie! “A Physical Organic Approach towards Statistical Modeling of Tetrazole and Azide Decomposition”
Congratulations to Jonas, Jon, and our collaborators at the Sigman Lab!
February 16, 2023 Welcome Ruchira!
We welcome undergraduate student Ruchira Hariharan to our group.
February 4, 2023 We have published in Angewandte Chemie! “Deuterodehalogenation Under Net Reductive or Redox-Neutral Conditions Enabled by Paired Electrolysis”
Congratulations to Devin!
January 24, 2023 Welcome Minh!
We welcome undergraduate student Minh Le to our group.
January 5, 2023 We have published in Nature! “Electrochemical Reactor Dictates Site Selectivity in N-Heteroarene Carboxylations”
Congratulations to Peng, Wen, Yi, Zhipeng, and our collaborators at the Yu Lab!
December 16, 2022 We have published in Angewandte Chemie! “Structurally Diverse Bench-Stable Nickel(0) Pre-Catalysts: A Practical Toolkit for In Situ Ligation Protocols”
Congratulations to Xiangyu and our collaborators at the Engle Lab!
December 12, 2022 Welcome Tianwei!
We welcome master student Tianwei Chen to our group.
December 5, 2022 Welcome Yukun!
We welcome postdoc Yukun Cheng to our group.
November 15, 2022 We have published in ACS Symposium Series! “High-Throughput Experimentation for Electrochemistry”
Congratulations to Jonas and our collaborators at Merck!
November 3, 2022 We have published in ACS Catalysis! “Electrochemical Diazidation of Alkenes Catalyzed by Manganese Porphyrin Complexes with Second-Sphere Hydrogen-Bond Donors”
Congratulations to Luiz, Yi, Jinjian, Niankai, Justin, and our collaborators at the Zhang Lab!
October 18, 2022 Welcome Elya and John!
We welcome graduate students Elya Kandahari and John Putziger to our group.
October 17, 2022 Welcome Bartosz and Yeosan!
We welcome postdocs Bartosz Gorski and Yeosan Lee to our group.
October 13, 2022 Welcome Blake!
We welcome undergraduate student Blake Weeks to our group.
September 22, 2022 We have published in Journal of the American Chemical Society! “Intercepting Hydrogen Evolution with Hydrogen-Atom Transfer: Electron-Initiated Hydrofunctionalization of Alkenes”
Congratulations to Xiangyu, Jinjian, Luiz, and our collaborators at the Abruña Lab!
September 1, 2022 Welcome Laieli, Pierre-Louis, and prospective students!
We welcome postdocs Laieli Munaretto and Pierre-Louis Lagueux-Tremblay as well as prospective graduate students to our group.
July 14, 2022 We have published in Chem! “Titanium radical redox catalysis: Recent innovations in catalysts, reactions, and modes of activation”
Congratulations to Xiangyu and Yejin!
June 1, 2021 We have published in Chemical Society Reviews! “Electrocatalysis as an enabling technology for organic synthesis”
Congrats to Luiz, Jinjian, Yifan, Lingxiang, and Jon!
June 1, 2021 Song has been promoted to Associate Professor with Tenure!
January 6, 2021 We have published in Organic Letters! “Isolation and X-ray Crystal Structure of an Electrogenerated TEMPO–N3 Charge-Transfer Complex”
Congratulations to Juno and our collaborators at the Nelson Lab!
December 8, 2020 We have published in JACS! “An Electroreductive Approach to Radical Silylation via the Activation of Strong Si–Cl Bonds”
Congratulations to Lingxiang and Juno!
December 7, 2020 Congratulations to Song for earning the The Society of Synthetic Organic Chemistry, Japan Lectureship Award!
November 24, 2020 We have published in JACS! “Electroreductive Carbofunctionalization of Alkenes with Alkyl Bromides via a Radical-Polar Crossover Mechanism”
Congratulations to Wen!
October 25, 2020 We’d like to extend a warm welcome to our newest members Minsoo, Zhipeng, Kyle, Kaining, Andy, and Halle! Welcome to the Lin Group everyone!
October 16, 2020 We have published in JACS! “Mechanistic Studies Inform Design of Improved Ti(salen) Catalysts for Enantioselective [3 + 2] Cycloaddition”
Congratulations to Xiangyu!
June 29, 2020 We have published in Nature Chemistry! “Dual electrocatalysis enables enantioselective hydrocyanation of conjugated alkenes”
Congratulations to Lu, Kai, and Will!
June 25, 2020 Our research has been highlighted in a Cornell Research feature!
This article highlights some of our recent contributions in electrocatalysis and synthetic electrochemistry! Check it out to hear about the Lin Lab’s efforts in improving the capability and sustainability of organic synthesis! [html]
April 17, 2020 Congratulations to Justin on receiving a DOD NDSEG Fellowship!
April 9, 2020 Congratulations to Jose (Frank L. and Lynnet Douglas Fellowship) and Jon on (Gerald A. and Kathleen H. Hill Fellowship) for earning summer research fellowships!
April 1, 2020 Congratulations to Jonas on receiving an ERP Fellowship!
March 31, 2020 Congratulations to Justin for receiving an Honorable Mention for the NSF Graduate Research Fellowship!
February 20, 2020 We have published in Accounts of Chemical Research! “Catalyzing Electrosynthesis: A Homogeneous Electrocatalytic Approach to Reaction Discovery”
Congratulations to Juno and Kai for their publication detailing the development of our research program in electrocatalytic difunctionalization of alkenes over the past three and half years! [html]
February 11, 2020 Congratulations to Song for receiving the 2020 Cottrell Scholar Award!
Song was recognized as a leader in integrating science, teaching, and research at the undergraduate and graduate levels, congratulations! [html]
February 5, 2020 We have published in JACS! “Reductive Electrophotocatalysis: Merging Electricity and Light to Achieve Extreme Reduction Potentials”
Congratulations to Hyunwoo! [html]
January 30, 2020 Hyunwoo leaves the lab to start his independent career!
Congrats to Hyunwoo! We wish him the best as he starts his professorship at Ewha Womans University!
December 23, 2019 We have published in Trends in Chemistry! “Electrocatalytic Diazidation of Alkenes”
Congratulations to Luiz! [html]
December 14, 2019 Congratulations to Song for recognition from MIT Technology Review as a “35 under 35” most influential innovator in China!
Recognized as an innovative and influential scientist and researcher, a big congratulations Song! [html]
November 26, 2019 Congratulations to our former post-doc Keyin Ye for receiving the Thieme Chemistry Journals award!
Presented to up-and-coming researchers worldwide who are in the early stages of their independent academic career as assistant or junior professors. Congratulations Keyin! [html]
October 24, 2019 We have published in JOC! “Recent Advances in Titanium Radical Redox Catalysis”
Congratulations to Terry and Xiangyu. [html]
October 15, 2019 We have published in Angewandte! “Electrochemistry Broadens the Scope of Flavin Photocatalysis: Photoelectrocatalytic Oxidation of Unactivated Alcohols”
Congratulations to Wen and Keith. [html]
September 21, 2019 Niankai leaves the lab to start his independent career!
Congrats to Kai! We wish him the best as he starts his professorship at the Chinese Academy of Sciences Institute of Chemistry!
September 9, 2019 We have published in JACS! “New Bisoxazoline Ligands Enable Enantioselective Electrocatalytic Cyanofunctionalization of Vinylarenes”
Congratulations to Kai and Lu. [html]
June 20, 2019 We have published in Syntlett! “Three-Component Chlorophosphinoylation of Alkenes via Anodically Coupled Electrolysis” as an invited contribution to the Cluster Electrochemical Synthesis and Catalysis.
Congratulations to Lingxiang and Niankai. [html]
June 10, 2019 A warm welcome to our summer students!
Welcome José, Ian, and Cordelia!
June 2, 2019 We have published in JACS! “Bimetallic Radical Redox-Relay Catalysis for the Isomerization of Epoxides to Allylic Alcohols”
Congratulations to Kevin and Terry. [html]
May 25, 2019 Congratulations to our second year graduate students!
Congratulations to Yifan, Jinjian, Joe, and Lingxiang for their successful candidacy exams!
February 20, 2019 Congratulations to Song for the award of a Sloan Research Fellowship.
Distinguished for his achievements and promise as a scientific leader, we are proud of Song and thank the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation. [html]
December 24, 2018 We have published in ACS Catalysis! “Mn-catalyzed Electrochemical Chloroalkylation of Alkenes”
Congratulations to Niankai, Yifan, Anthony, Lu, and Atsushi. [html]
December 17, 2018 Song has been awarded the 2019 Young Investigator Program (YIP) Award by the Office of Naval Research!
We are very thankful to the ONR and proud of Song for this achievement. [html]
October 26, 2018 We have published in JACS! “Ti-Catalyzed Radical Alkylation of Secondary and Tertiary Alkyl Chlorides Using Michael Acceptors”
Congratulations to Xiangyu, Wei, Kevin, Binyang, Gisselle, and Zhidong. [html]
September 12, 2018 We have published in JACS! “Electrochemical Azidooxygenation of Alkenes Mediated by a TEMPO–N3 Charge-Transfer Complex.”
Congratulations to Greg, Ambarneil, Reed, and Niankai, and a special congratulations to Juno. Thanks to Kyle Lancaster and Timothee Chauverie for their help on this work. .[html]
September 5, 2018 Congratulations to Niankai, who was named as a finalist for the Blavatnik Regional Award for Young Scientists!
Niankai has been recognized for his contributions in “transformative work on the development of electroorganic synthesis as a viable synthetic chemistry tool.” Truly well deserved recognition for a fantastic scientist.
August 2, 2018 We have published in Nature Protocols.
“A general, electrocatalytic approach to the synthesis of vicinal diamines.” [PDF][HTML] Congratulations to Niankai and Greg!
July 16, 2018 We welcome our new class of graduate students to Cornell.
We hope you enjoy it here, and please feel free to attend our group meetings!
May 27, 2018 Congratulations to our second year graduate students and our undergraduate seniors
Congratulations to Juno, Xiangyu, and Greg for their successful candidacy exams, and to Reed and Ambarneil for graduating! We look forward to the great things you will continue to do!
May 16, 2018 We have published in Chemistry – A European Journal! “Synthesis of Chlorotrifluoromethylated Pyrrolidines by Electrocatalytic Radical Ene‐Yne Cyclization”
Congratulations to Ke-Yin, Zhidong, Greg, Johannes, and Niankai! [html]
May 3, 2018 We have published a perspective article in ACS Catalysis!
“An Electrocatalytic Approach to the Radical Difunctionalization of Alkenes” Congratulations to Greg. [html]
April 3, 2018 Ambarneil has been awarded the NSF GRFP!
Congratulations Ambarneil!
April 2, 2018 Song has been named a Milstein Faculty Fellow!
We are thankful to the College of Arts and Sciences here at Cornell.
March 1, 2018 Song has been awarded the NSF CAREER grant!
We are very thankful to the NSF, and we will put it to good use.
February 27, 2018 Our first enantioselective reaction has been published in JACS! “Diastereo- and Enantioselective Formal [3 + 2] Cycloaddition of Cyclopropyl Ketones and Alkenes via Ti-Catalyzed Radical Redox Relay”
Congratulations to Wei, Johannes, and Xiangyu! [html]
February 7, 2018 We have a couple new papers to share!
“Anodically Coupled Electrolysis for the Heterodifunctionalization of Alkenes” [html] and “Electrochemically Controlled Cationic Polymerization of Vinyl Ethers” [html] have both been pulished in JACS. Congratulations to Kevin, Gisselle, Niankai, Greg, and the Fors group’s Brian Peterson!
January 15, 2018 Our review article, “Electrocatalytic Difunctionalization of Olefins as a General Approach to the Synthesis of Vicinal Diamines” has been published in Synlett!
Congratulations to Joe and Niankai!
November 20, 2017 Song has been selected as a Thieme Chemistry Journal Awardee!
Song has been selected by the editorial boards of Synlett, Synthesis, and Synfacts as a Thieme Chemistry Journal Awardees in 2018.
October 31, 2017 We welcome Johannes Harenberg to the group
Johannes is visiting us from the University of Munich
October 24, 2017 We welcome to our new graduate students to the lab!
Jinjian, Joe, Lingxiang, and Yifan are joining us as graduate students. We are excited to welcome them to the group.
October 21, 2017 Our work has been published in JACS! Electrocatalytic Radical Dichlorination of Alkenes with Nucleophilic Chlorine Sources
Congratulations to Niankai and Greg! [html]
September 1, 2017 We welcome Gisselle Pombar to our group!
Gisselle is visiting us as an undergraduate research intern and a McNair Scholar from University of Central Florida
August 21, 2017 Our work has been published in JACS! Radical Redox-Relay Catalysis: Formal [3+2] Cycloaddition of N-Acylaziridines and Alkenes
Congratulations to Wei, Xiangyu, James, and Juno. [html]
August 10, 2017 Check out our First Paper! Metal-catalyzed electrochemical diazidation of alkenes
Congratulations to Niankai, Greg, Ambarneil, and Aaron. [html]
July 11, 2017 First publication in press!
Our first independent work has been accepted for publication. Stay tuned!
June 5, 2017 Welcome REU students Anthony and Celeste
We welcome REU students Anthony and Celeste to the group!
June 1, 2017 We’ve been funded!
Our lab was awarded the Atkinson Center’s Academic Venture Fund!
May 17, 2017 Our lab has been featured in a C&EN story: A year in the life of a new professor
It can be daunting starting as a professor. Song was featured in a C&EN story for discussing the hardships, goals, and successes of our young group.
May 15, 2017 Congratulations to James on winning the Harold Adlard Lovenberg Prize
James was selected to receive the Harold Adlard Lovenberg Prize, an award given annually to the top chemistry major in the junior class.
April 15, 2017 Congratulations to Jason on accepting UCLA’s offer of graduate admission!
Jason has accepted the offer of admission from UCLA and will be joining the chemistry department as a graduate student in Fall 2017.
March 24, 2017 Congratulations to Ambarneil on winning the Summer Undergraduate Research Fellowship
Ambarneil was selected to receive the ACS Division of Organic Chemistry Summer Undergraduate Research Fellowship (SURF), a prestigious award sponsored by Merck and Pfizer.
March 17, 2017 Congratulations to Greg on winning the NSF Graduate Fellowship
Greg was awarded the NSF Graduate Research Fellowship! Bravo!
February 23, 2017 Welcome prospective graduate students!
It is recruiting weekend again, and we welcome all prospective students who are visiting Ithaca in the next few days. We hope to make you feel at home so you will join the chemistry family at Cornell in the Fall semester. If you cannot make it to either of the visiting weekends, please feel free to contact us with questions.
January 25, 2017 Welcome Aaron and Jane
We welcome undergraduate students Aaron and Jane to the group!
November 1, 2016 Welcome Greg, Juno, and Xiangyu
We welcome Greg, Juno and Xiangyu, new first-year graduate students, to the group!
August 10, 2016 First Experiment
All the fume hoods were finally certified and ready to be used. We are all very excited to do our first experiments.
July 28, 2016 Welcome Wei and Niankai
We welcome postdoc Wei and Niankai to our group.
July 25, 2016 Welcome Tony and Ambarneil
We welcome postdoc Tony and undergraduate student Ambarneil to our group.
July 1, 2016 Welcome Keith, Sophia, Jason, Lucie, and Leo
We welcome graduate student Keith Carpenter, undergraduate students Sophia Lai, Jason Chari and Lucie Fan, and visiting student Leonardo Melo to join our lab!
February 8, 2016 Recruiting New Lab Members
The Lin Group website is up and running! Welcome! As the first recruiting weekend at Cornell CCB approaches, we are looking forward to meeting and hosting all the talented and enthusiastic prospective students!