The papers included in this issue of ECS Transactions were originally presented in the symposium ¿Mechanistic and Synthetic Aspects of Organic Electrochemistry¿, held during the 215th meeting of The Electrochemical Society, in San Francisco, CA from May 24 to 29, 2009.

The papers included in this issue of ECS Transactions were originally presented in the symposium ¿Synthetic and Mechanistic Organic Electron Transfer Reactions¿, held during the 216th meeting of The Electrochemical Society, in Vienna, Austria from October 4 to 9, 2009.

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