Traditional direct chemical oxidations to highly oxidised functional groups involve currently the use of toxic or explosive oxidants. In this context, electrochemistry might enable the development of a more sustainable cost-efficient and highly selective oxidative processes.

This project is focused on exploring never before-investigated electrooxidative transformations, which could become a key step in the process to important pharmaceuticals.  The approach is first the investigation of the electrooxidation in batch and then its scale-up in a flow system. Both the electrocatalytic and the direct electrooxidation will be investigated. The gained data collection will facilitate the transfer of the new methods to other pharmaceticals and chemical products.