>>483501>Didn't scientiststhere's many, might help if you could give us a few hints to narrow it down a bit.
>enclose a container full of air and electrify it to decompose it to extract organic byproducts?Air is roughly 8 parts nitrogen and 2 parts oxygen and a small smattering of trace gases. Air also contains water vapor as humidity. (there also particles like dust, i'll ignore those)
I'm not sure what "Electrically decomposing" means exactly, so here goes nothin:
CO2 which is part of the trace gases, can be electrically split into carbon and oxygen, the water vapor gives you hydrogen-ions and O2 molecules
If you just stick 2 electrodes, with high voltage potential, near each other in the air, you'll get Ozone. That's a chemically unstable form of 3 oxygen atoms stuck together, that will fall apart into a O2 and a O-ion. Ozone is that fresh-air smell after rain and thunder storms. The O-ion neutralizes bacteria, viruses and fungal-spores, as well as volatile organic compounds (stinky or stale air).
Nitrogen is mostly chemically neutral and only reacts if you dump huge energies into the system. Most of the other trace gases are noble gases that don't react much either.
The example in OP just uses electricity to extract carbon and hydrogen from the air to feed bacteria, they don't get anything organic directly from the air.