Issue 46, 2020

Electro-organic synthesis – a 21st century technique

Abstract

The severe limitations of fossil fuels and finite resources influence the scientific community to reconsider chemical synthesis and establish sustainable techniques. Several promising methods have emerged, and electro-organic conversion has attracted particular attention from international academia and industry as an environmentally benign and cost-effective technique. The easy application, precise control, and safe conversion of substrates with intermediates only accessible by this method reveal novel pathways in synthetic organic chemistry. The popularity of electricity as a reagent is accompanied by the feasible conversion of bio-based feedstocks to limit the carbon footprint. Several milestones have been achieved in electro-organic conversion at rapid frequency, which have opened up various perspectives for forthcoming processes.

Graphical abstract: Electro-organic synthesis – a 21st century technique

Article information

Article type
Perspective
Submitted
31 mars 2020
Accepted
18 mai 2020
First published
20 mai 2020
This article is Open Access

All publication charges for this article have been paid for by the Royal Society of Chemistry
Creative Commons BY-NC license

Chem. Sci., 2020,11, 12386-12400

Electro-organic synthesis – a 21st century technique

D. Pollok and S. R. Waldvogel, Chem. Sci., 2020, 11, 12386 DOI: 10.1039/D0SC01848A

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