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Relevant Background Information

  • Yan, M.; Kawamata, Y; Baran, P. S. Synthetic Organic Electrochemical Methods Since 2000: On the Verge of a Renaissance. Chem. Rev. ASAPs
  • Yan, M.; Kawamata, Y.; Baran, P. S. Synthetic Organic Electrochemistry: Calling All Engineers. Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. Accepted
  • Horn, E. J.; Rosen, B. R.; Baran, P. S. Synthetic Organic Electrochemistry: An Enabling and Innately Sustainable Method, ACS Cent. Sci., 2016, 2, 302-308. (Free Download)

Applications of Electrochemistry in Synthesis

  • Li, C.; Kawamata, Y.; Nakamura, H.; Vantourout, J. C.; Liu, Z.; Hou, Q.; Bao, D.; Starr, J. T.; Chen, J.; Yan, M.; Baran, P. S. Electrochemically Enabled, Ni-Catalyzed Amination. Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 2017, 56, 13088.
  • Kawamata, Y.; Yan, M.; Liu, Z.; Bao, D. -H.; Chen, J.; Starr, J.; Baran, P. S. Scalable, Electrochemical Oxidation of Unactivated C–H Bonds, J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2017, 139, 7448−7451
  • Horn, E. J.; Rosen, B. R.; Chen, Y.; Tang, J.; Chen, K.; Eastgate, M. D.; Baran, P. S. Scalable and sustainable electrochemical allylic C-H oxidation, Nature, 2016, 533, 78-81.
  • O'Brien, A. G.; Maruyama, A.; Inokuma, Y.; Fujita, M.; Baran, P. S.; Blackmond, D. G. Radical C–H Functionalization of Heteroarenes under Electrochemical Control, Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 2014, 53, 11868-11871.
  • Rosen, B. R.; Werner, E. W.; O'Brien, A. G.; Baran, P. S. Total Synthesis of Dixiamycin B by Electrochemical Oxidation J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2014, 136, 5571-5574.