Introduction
Much of modern synthetic organic chemistry involves trapping short-lived reaction intermediates in known chemical reactions in order to divert reactions into other paths producing different products. Electrochemistry is ideally suited for this purpose because single electrons are generally transferred to or from the working electrode. The initial intermediate in most organic electrode reactions is an ion radical; the initial reduction step affords an anion radical and the initial oxidation step, a cation radical. Both types of species are quite reactive and often undergo rapid follow-up chemical reactions to afford neutral radicals, as shown in Fig. 1 [1, 2].
Typical decomposition routes of electrogenerated ion radicals
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Fry, A.J. (2014). Electrogenerated Reactive Species. In: Kreysa, G., Ota, Ki., Savinell, R.F. (eds) Encyclopedia of Applied Electrochemistry. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4419-6996-5_355
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