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Peroxodicarbonates are of substantial interest as potentially powerful and sustainable oxidizers but have so far been accessible only in low concentrations with unsatisfactory energy efficiency. Concentrated (> 0.9 mol L À 1 ) peroxodicarbonate solutions have now been made accessible by the electrolysis of aqueous K 2 CO 3 / Na 2 CO 3 /KHCO 3 solutions at high current density of 3.33 A cm À 2 in an efficiently cooled circular flow reactor equipped with a boron-doped diamond anode and a stainless-steel cathode. Their synthetic potential as platform oxidizers was clearly demonstrated in transformations including sulfoxidation, N-oxidation, and epoxidation.