Recent advances in electrochemical copper catalysis for modern organic synthesis

Abstract

In recent decades, organic electrosynthesis has emerged as a practical, sustainable, and efficient approach that facilitates valuable transformations in synthetic chemistry. Combining electrochemistry with transition-metal catalysis is a promising and rapidly growing methodology for effectively forming challenging C–C and C–heteroatom bonds in complex molecules in a sustainable manner. In this review, we summarize the recent advances in the combination of electrochemistry and copper catalysis for various organic transformations.

Keywords

• copper
• electrochemistry
• radical chemistry
• single-electron transfer
• sustainable catalysis