While the majority of reported paired electrochemical reactions involve carefully matched cathodic and anodic reactions, the precise matching of half reactions in an electrolysis cell is not generally necessary.
Oxidation reactions are powerful tools for synthesis because they allow us to reverse the polarity of electron-rich functional groups, generate highly reactive intermediates, and increase the functionality of molecules.
The electrochem. synthesis of pyrazolidine-3,5-diones and benzoxazoles by N-N bond formation and C,O linkage, resp., represents an easy access to medicinally relevant structures. Electrochem. as a key technol.
In electrochem. processes, an oxidn. half-reaction is always paired with a redn. half-reaction. Although systems for reactions such as the redn. of CO2 can be coupled to H2O oxidn. to produce O2 at the anode, large-scale O2 prodn.
Cu(I)-catalyzed "click"-reactions cannot be performed on a borate ester derived polymer coating on a microelectrode array because the Cu(II)-precursor for the catalyst triggers background reactions between both acetylene and azide groups with the
