Organo-mediator enabled electrochemical transformations

Outer-sphere electron transfer (ET) between active mediators and substrates, offering advantages over direct electrolysis due to their availability, ease of modification, and simple post-processing. They prevent overoxidation/reduction, enhance selectivity, and mitigate electrode passivation during the electrosynthesis. By modifying the structure of organo-mediators, those with tunable redox potentials enable electrosynthesis and avoid metal residues in the final products, making them promising for further application in synthetic chemistry, particularly in pharmacochemistry, where the maximum allowed level of the metal residue in synthetic samples is extremely strict. This review highlights the recent…

• NN
  National Natural Science Foundation of China

  Awards: 22371149, 22188101
• NU
  Nankai University

  Award: 63181206
• NK
  National Key Research and Development Program of China

  Awards: 2023YFA1507203, 2022YFA1503200
• FR
  Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities

  Award: 63243098