# Electrifying Organic Synthesis

“Electrifying Organic Synthesis” (2018), by Anton Wiebe et al. Chemistry research paper. Original abstract below, unchanged. No free PDF was found.

- Authors: Anton Wiebe, Tile Gieshoff, Sabine Möhle, Eduardo Rodrigo, Michael Zirbes, Siegfried R. Waldvogel
- Published: January 2, 2018
- Field: Chemistry
- DOI: https://doi.org/10.1002/anie.201711060
- Source: https://doi.org/10.1002/anie.201711060

## Abstract

The direct synthetic organic use of electricity is currently experiencing a renaissance. More synthetically oriented laboratories working in this area are exploiting both novel and more traditional concepts, paving the way to broader applications of this niche technology. As only electrons serve as reagents, the generation of reagent waste is efficiently avoided. Moreover, stoichiometric reagents can be regenerated and allow a transformation to be conducted in an electrocatalytic fashion. However, the application of electroorganic transformations is more than minimizing the waste footprint, it rather gives rise to inherently safe processes, reduces the number of steps of many syntheses, allows for milder reaction conditions, provides alternative means to access desired structural entities, and creates intellectual property (IP) space. When the electricity originates from renewable resources, this surplus might be directly employed as a terminal oxidizing or reducing agent, providing an ultra-sustainable and therefore highly attractive technique. This Review surveys recent developments in electrochemical synthesis that will influence the future of this area.

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