“…Herein, we report the realization of this goal, and such an electrooxidative cyclization displays a reversed regioselectivity compared to previously reported photocatalytic alkylative cyclizations and proceeds with a broad substrate scope and good functional group tolerance under mild, transition-metal-free, exogenous oxidant-free, and electrolyte-free conditions, providing a green entry to 3-polyfluoroalkylated 4-pyrrolin-2-ones##. Considering that alkenes are somewhat prone to oligomerization and oxidative breakdown under radical conditions and that radical species generated at an anode tend to undergo uncontrolled reactions such as overoxidation, dimerization, and electrode passivation owing to the accumulation of reactive intermediates near the electrode surface, , photoelectrocatalytic conditions , were used to obtain satisfactory yields in some cases concerning a sensitive or challenging substrate. Upon introduction of a photocatalytic cycle, which works like a voltage amplifier, into an organic electrolysis, a mild electrode potential might be turned into a fixed, homogeneous, transient, and highly biased excited-state potential.…”