Electrifying Hydroformylation Catalysts Exposes Voltage-Driven C-C Bond Formation.

Electrochemical reactions can access a significant range of driving forces under operationally mild conditions and are thus envisioned to play a key role in decarbonizing chemical manufacturing. However, many reactions with well-established thermochemical precedents remain difficult to achieve electrochemically. For example, hydroformylation (thermo-HFN) is an industrially important reaction that couples olefins and carbon monoxide (CO) to make aldehydes.