Recent Advances in Electrochemical Oxidation to Construct C-O Bonds

C-O bonds are widely found in pharmaceuticals and natural products and have various pharmacological activities. Therefore, developing effective strategies for constructing compounds containing C-O bonds has become a research hotspot among chemists. Organic electrochemical synthesis is a green, mild, and efficient strategy that shows great potential in the synthesis of compounds containing C-O bonds. This review introduces the reactions of compounds containing C-O bonds recently constructed by electrochemical methods and expounds the corresponding reaction mechanism to provide a reference for applying such reactions in organic synthesis.