The photochemical oxidation mediated by an organo-sensitizer provides this, 6c, d and we showed the related photochemical alkylation reaction to be scalable in a flow system. Baran and co-workers reported on the electrochemical quinuclidine-mediated C-H activation of methylene and methine groups. We realized that generating the quinuclidine radical cation by electrochemical means instead of using light and a photosensitizer, might overcome some of the limitation of photochemical oxidation and could be an attractive alternative. We assumed initially that the fate of the generated carbon-centered radical would be identical to that in the photochemical process, e.g. reaction with oxygen or superoxide and subsequent collapse to the carbonyl function.