Themed collection Electrosynthesis

A summary of the Faraday Discussion presented in this issue and a perspective on that discussion is presented.

Organic electrolytic synthesis is experiencing a second renaissance and is expected to develop more and more as a comprehensive field, focusing on organic synthesis, but also producing the materials necessary to enrich our lives.

For primary and secondary alkylpyridinium salts, trends in ArBr scope are similar, and electrochemical conditions compare well to chemical methods. Our study offers increased understanding in the application of deaminative reductive cross-couplings.

A facile water/chloroform interfacial polymerisation was employed to synthesize PEDOT/Zr-K-OMS-2 (PZrK) microscale films (∼21 nm thickness), formed by a random network of PEDOT flakes and Zr-K-OMS-2 nanoribbons.

A three-compartment alkaline flow-through electrolyser was successfully developed and the single pass conversion of syngas to ethylene achieved was 2.5 mM cm⁻² in the optimised conditions.

Hydrogen production from whisky distillery co-products via digestion with phosphomolybdic acid and electrolysis using proton-exchange membrane flow cells.

Simulations support time dependent detachment of homogeneous ET and coupled chemistry under mediated electroreduction when E_ele < E_M < E_ArI.

More than a dozen different mediators were employed in the trifluoromethylation of (hetero-)arenes to compare them in their efficacies.

The formation of a Ni^II(Ar) intermediate and the Ni^II(Ar)/Ni^III(Ar) ligand exchange pathway to generate a high-valent Ni^III(Ar)₂ intermediate in Ni-catalyzed electrochemical homo-coupling of aryl halides is reported.

Efficient electrosynthesis of 6-hydroxyhexanoic acid (6HA) and adipic acid (AA) from the electrochemical oxidation of 1,6-hexanediol using a nanoporous nickel oxyhydroxide-borate anode.

We explore the often neglected impact of supporting electrolyte on homogeneous electrocatalytic mechanisms using the catalytic reduction of benzyl chlorides via Co and Fe tetraphenylporphyrins as a model reaction.

Electrocatalytic reduction of S₂O₈²⁻ in water yields SO₄˙⁻, which is employed for homogeneous oxidation reactions. Highly reducing CO₂˙⁻ was electrogenerated via mediated oxidation of C₂O₄²⁻ and utilized for various reductive reactions.

Tuning the surface of boron-doped diamond functionalised with platinum nanoparticles and thin films alters the selectivity of hydroxyl-radical-mediated indirect electrooxidation of acetic acid to the Kolbe product.

Lithium carbonate is crystallized from a complex mixture of Li⁺, Na⁺ and K⁺ chlorides in a water electrolyzer where CO₂ is absorbed. The efficiency of the process is studied upon increasing the Na⁺/Li⁺ concentration ratios.

A dihydrolevoglucosenone (DLG)/EtOH mixture resulted in a convenient solvent to carry out galvanostatic electroreductions of starting materials that exhibit high potential value.

Aqueous electrochemical reduction of an NAD⁺ mimetic, 1-n-butyl-3-carbamoylpyridinium bromide, to its enzymatically active form, 1,4-dihydro-1-n-butyl nicotinamide, is favored in the presence of sodium pyruvate as a supporting electrolyte.

Redox chemistry on-the-fly in the presence of a magnetic field is proposed as an efficient concept to boost the stereoselective conversion of a prochiral starting compound with the help of autonomous swimmers.

A protected cyclic (1,3;1,6)-β-glucan dodecasaccharide was synthesized by the electrochemical one-pot dimerisation–cyclisation of a semi-circular hexasaccharide.

Here, we report an electrochemical protocol for hydrogen isotope exchange (HIE) at α-C(sp³)–H amine sites.

Molecular oxygen is used under biphasic electrochemical flow conditions to cleave alkenes.