“…an advance that is set to revolutionize the discovery and development of organic electrochemical reactions.”
Thomas O’Brien & Alastair Lennox
Nature News and Views (637, 277 (2025))
Small
Photoelectronics for
Electro-
Chemical
Synthesis
SPECS are the way to do electrochemistry at scale. No more wires and racks of electronics. All you need is light. You can run hundreds of reactions in parallel, dramatically speeding up electrosynthesis for drug discovery.
Górski et al. Nature 637, 354–361 (2025).
novel molecule discovery
Electrosynthesis can create unique compounds with the potential to address a myriad of medical conditions. SPECS bring the power of electrosynthesis to high-throughput drug discovery for the first time, accelerating the discovery timeline.
Seamless Integration
SPECS are tiny electrochemical devices powered by light. They turn a standard well plate into an electrosynthesis laboratory. SPECS make electrochemical synthesis:
as easy as photochemistry
highly parallelizable
fit seamlessly into HTE protocols
Pilots ongoing with
“…a landmark accomplishment in the field of synthetic organic electrochemistry.”
Phil Baran, Scripps (C&EN News, 2025)