To avoid using nonrenewable resources, e.g., fossil fuels in organic synthesis, the researchers have shifted their focus towards the electro-organic synthesis utilizing renewable electricity sources and electrons as green reagents while avoiding the use of stoichiometric amounts of external redox reagents. Over the time, different strategies have been harnessed making this synthetic route more effective to achieve highly atom-economical reaction conditions, excellent functional group tolerance, and high reaction efficiency with the production of lower amount of waste materials. A ton of accomplishments have been recorded in the field of electrochemical synthesis, and few recent findings (2019-2024) with the categorization into C-C, C-heteroatom, heteroatom-heteroatom bond formations, annulation reactions, etc., are placed together in this review with their mechanistic insights.
Badsara et al. (Fri,) studied this question.