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.

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