Electrocatalytic hydrogen atom transfer could give industrial organic synthesis a boost
The new approach – inspired by decades of energy storage research – is selective, efficient and sustainable
A greener strategy for functionalising double and triple carbon–carbon bonds has been developed by US scientists.1 The researchers borrowed an electrochemical technique from the energy storage field and applied it to organic synthesis, creating a new method that doesn’t require chemical reductants and is more efficient and selective than the classical approach.