Publications

Selected peer-reviewed articles, reviews, book chapters and patents in synthetic electrochemistry, organic electrochemistry, reaction mechanisms and scalable process development.

Research articles and reviews

2026

Feba T. Pulikkottil; Daniel F. Carvalho; Kohei Taniguchi; John S. Burnett; Charles A. I. Goodall; Victoria K. Elmes; Andrew Hurt; Ewan R. Clark; Anthony J. H. M. Meijer; Kevin Lam

Practical and divergent electrochemical access to thiocarbamoyl fluorides and N-trifluoromethyl amines from secondary amines

Nature Communications, published online 20 June 2026.

DOI: 10.1038/s41467-026-74660-2

Federico Paccoia; Conall Molloy; Mathéo Garreau; Serena Xhihani; Katherine M. P. Wheelhouse; Lee J. Edwards; Kevin Lam

Electrochemical Trideuteromethylation with AcOD-d₄: A Route to CD₃-Labeled Building Blocks

Organic Letters 2026, 28, 8541–8545.

DOI: 10.1021/acs.orglett.6c02508

Shusuke Hattori; Marco Galzignato; Kevin Lam

eCyanation: A Dual Strategy for Electrochemical Cyanation of Amines Using Potassium Thiocyanate

ACS Electrochemistry 2026, 2, 897–903.

DOI: 10.1021/acselectrochem.6c00017

Jamie M. Walsh; Marco Galzignato; Shusuke Hattori; Marylise Triacca; Kevin Lam

eCyclopropanation: a safe and scalable electrochemical route to cyclopropanes

Chemical Science 2026, 17, 7135–7145.

DOI: 10.1039/D5SC08940A

Kevin Lam; Conall Molloy

Non-Transition-Metal-Mediated Electrochemical Oxidations of Alcohols to Aldehydes and Ketones

SynOpen 2026, 10, 58–65.

DOI: 10.1055/a-2786-1336

Ewan V. Tushkanov; Hamid Salehzadeh; Caterina Campinoti; Charles A. I. Goodall; Marco Lessi; Antonio Del Vecchio; Kevin Lam

e-Carbonyl: Electrochemical Synthesis of α-Keto Esters via α-Carbonyl Carbocations

Organic Letters 2026, 28, 51–55.

DOI: 10.1021/acs.orglett.5c04372

2025

Conall Molloy; Simon Kaltenberger; Lee Edwards; Katherine M. P. Wheelhouse; Kevin Lam

eCarbonyls: an electrochemical thioether mediated oxidation of alcohols to aldehydes and ketones

Chemical Science 2025, 16, 20286–20291.

DOI: 10.1039/D5SC06546A

Marylise Triacca; Carl D. Reens; Hamish Stephen; Kevin Lam

eSpiro: A scalable and sustainable electrosynthetic route to spiroketals via anodic oxidation of malonic acids

Green Chemistry 2025, 27, 7513–7517.

DOI: 10.1039/D5GC01767J

Feba Pulikkottil; Marco Galzignato; Jérémy Saiter; Charles A. I. Goodall; Bini Claringbold; Kevin Lam

eFluorination for the Rapid Synthesis of Fluorothioformates from Oxalic Acid Monothioesters

Organic Letters 2025, 27, 4112–4117.

DOI: 10.1021/acs.orglett.5c00513

Hamid Salehzadeh; Zahra Rostami Bigdeli; Kevin Lam

Electrochemically assisted Friedländer reaction: a highly efficient and sustainable method for quinoline synthesis

Green Chemistry 2025, 27, 3346–3354.

DOI: 10.1039/D5GC00330J

Review

Practical electrosynthesis

Books and chapters

Shinsuke Inagi; Kohei Taniguchi; Kevin Lam

Fluorination Enabled by Electrochemistry

In Science of Synthesis: Modern Strategies in Organofluorine Chemistry 2, 2026, section 2.10.

DOI: 10.1055/sos-SD-244-00167

Alessia Petti; Kevin Lam

Recent Advances in the Kolbe and Non-Kolbe Electrolysis of Carboxylic Acids

In Sustainable and Functional Redox Chemistry, 2022, pp. 29–59.

DOI: 10.1039/9781839164828-00029

Alastair J. J. Lennox; Kevin Lam; Matthew C. Leech

Electrochemistry in Natural Product Synthesis

In Science of Synthesis: Electrochemistry in Organic Synthesis, 2021, pp. 435–480.

DOI: 10.1055/sos-SD-236-00280

Kevin Lam; William E. Geiger

One and Two Electron Transfer Reactions

In Organic Electrochemistry, 5th edition, 2015.

Patents

Inventors: William E. Geiger; Kevin Lam; Jon E. Ramsey; Claire F. Verschraegen

Cymanquine compounds and derivatives thereof and uses thereof

US 10,954,260 B2, granted 2021.

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Inventors: William E. Geiger; Kevin Lam; Lawrence W. Bergman

Use of cymanquine compounds as antimalarial agents

US 10,512,652 B2, granted 2019.

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