ERC Starting Grant · 2022
Hybrid Electrochemically-paired Light Irradiated Organic Synthesis
The synergy of visible light and electrical energy has been employed for decades in water splitting to hydrogen, but only recently was used to power the synthesis of higher value complex organic molecules (natural products, pharmaceuticals). Synthetic photoelectrochemistry (PEC) is receiving notable attention due to its enhanced scope of redox transformations, sustainability, and selectivity compared to photo- or electrochemistry alone. Synthetic electrochemistry (EC) is a useful synthetic tool that replaces atom-uneconomical chemical redox agents with simple electrons and protons. However, in most EC reactions and in all PEC reactions, only one half-reaction of the cell is optimized to…
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