Taming Electron Transfers: From Breaking Bonds to Creating Molecules

Abstract The electron is the ultimate redox reagent to build and reshape molecular structures. Understanding controlling parameters underlying dissociative transfer (DET) reactivity its coupling with proton crucial for combining selectivity, kinetics energy efficiency in chemistry. Reactivity understanding mechanistic elements DET processes are traced back key examples of current research efforts presented, demonstrating a large variety applications. involvement pathways indeed encompasses broad range such as photoredox catalysis, CO 2 reduction alcohol oxidation. Interplay between these experimental fundamental study provides powerful path driving force‐rate relationships, which development future generations efficient catalytic schemes organic