A tandem electrosynthesis of homoallylic alcohols from alcohols in one-pot was realized. In virtue of this one-pot electrosynthesis, the traditional reaction substrates of allylation were broadened from carbonyl compounds to alcohols.

Recent and ongoing discoveries in the field of extracellular electron transport offer the potential to electrically power highly flexible, carbon-fixing microbial metabolisms and generate a rich variety of chemicals and fuels. This process, electrosynthesis, creates the opportunity to use biology for the low cost storage of renewable electricity and the synthesis of fuels that produce no net ca...

Microbial electrosynthesis, a process in which microorganisms use electrons derived from electrodes to reduce carbon dioxide to multicarbon, extracellular organic compounds, is a potential strategy for capturing electrical energy in carbon-carbon bonds of readily stored and easily distributed products, such as transportation fuels. To date, only one organism, the acetogen Sporomusa ovata, has b...

Electrosynthesis of Commodity Chemicals by an Autotrophic Microbial Community 1 Christopher W. Marshall1, Daniel E. Ross2, Erin B. Fichot2, R. Sean Norman2, 2 and Harold D. May1# 3 1Department of Microbiology & Immunology, Marine Biomedicine & Environmental Science 4 Center, Medical University of South Carolina, Charleston, SC 5 2Department of Environmental Health Sciences, University of South ...

An efficient and sustainable method was developed for electrocatalytic multicomponent synthesis of  spirooxindole-chromene  derivatives via  a  green  one-pot,  three  component  condensations  of cyclic-1,3-diones,   malononitrile  and   isatins   inside  an  undivided  cell  where  potassium  bromide was applied as electrolyte in ethanol/DMSO (95/5 v/v) media, and a practical Fe-Mn-O composit...

An efficient electrosynthesis of homoallylic alcohols from allylic bromides and aldehydes in aqueous ammonia is achieved in an undivided cell fitted with a pair of zinc electrodes.

The acetogen Clostridium ljungdahlii is capable of syngas fermentation and microbial electrosynthesis. Biofilm formation could benefit both these applications, but was not yet reported for C. ljungdahlii. Biofilm formation does not occur under standard growth conditions, but attachment or aggregation could be induced by different stresses. The strongest biofilm formation was observed with the a...

The electrosynthesis of hydrogen peroxide using the oxygen reduction reaction has been studied in the absence and presence of power ultrasound in a non-optimized sono-electrochemical flow reactor (20 cm cathodic compartment length with 6.5 cm inner diameter) with reticulated vitreous glassy carbon electrode (30 x 40 x 10 mm, 10 ppi, 7 cm(2)cm(-3)) as the cathode. The effect of several electroch...

Microbial electrosynthesis, an artificial form of photosynthesis, can efficiently convert carbon dioxide into organic commodities; however, this process has only previously been demonstrated in reactors that have features likely to be a barrier to scale-up. Therefore, the possibility of simplifying reactor design by both eliminating potentiostatic control of the cathode and removing the membran...

Design and application of powder composite electrodes for electrosynthesis and electroanalysis research has been carried out. The physical characterization of electrodes was analysis using SEM, EDX and FTIR. The electrochemical stability was analysis using cyclic voltammetry. The stability of electrodes was analyzed using Atomic Absorption Spectroscopy (AAS). The powder composite electrodes wer...