This study of terpene synthesis has provided an efficient platform for the modular construction of polyunsaturated molecules with precise geometrical control. Its implementation required methodological advancement thereby revealing a relationship between productive catalysis and materials science. Electrochemistry offers chemists new enabling opportunities through variables that are uniquely available to it. While electrode modification offers new possibilities for synthetic chemists to optimize difficult reactions-analytical chemists and physical chemists have long embraced this concept to overcome their own chemical challenges. The potential of these unique parameters to enable useful chemical reactivity is an attractive area for further study.