* In the Markó–Lam deoxygenation, an alcohol could be almost instantaneously deoxygenated by electroreducing its toluate ester.
* In concept, adiponitrile is prepared from dimerizing acrylonitrile:
:In practice,the cathodic hydrodimerization of activated olefins is applied industrially in the synthesis of adiponitrile from two equivalents of acrylonitrile :
* The cathodic reduction of arene compounds to the 1,4-dihydro derivatives is similar to a Birch reduction. Examples from industry are the reduction of phthalic acid:
and the reduction of 2-methoxynaphthalene:  
* The Tafel rearrangement, named for Julius Tafel, was at one time an important method for the synthesis of certain hydrocarbons from alkylated ethyl acetoacetate, a reaction accompanied by the rearrangement reaction of the alkyl group:
* The cathodic reduction of a nitrile to a primary amine in a divided cell; the cathodic reduction of benzyl cyanide to phenethylamine is shown:
* Cathodic reduction of a nitroalkene can give the oxime in good yield. At higher negative reduction potentials, the nitroalkene can be reduced further, giving the primary amine but with lower yield.
* Azobenzene is prepared in industrial electrosynthesis using nitrobenzene.
* An electrochemical carboxylation of a para-isobutyl benzyl chloride to Ibuprofen is promoted under supercritical carbon dioxide.
* Cathodic reduction of a carboxylic acid (oxalic acid) to an aldehyde (glyoxylic acid, shows as the rare aldehyde form) in a divided cell:
* Originally phenylpropanoic acid could be prepared from reduction of cinnamic acid by electrolysis.
* An electrocatalysis by a copper complex helps reduce carbon dioxide to oxalic acid; this conversion uses carbon dioxide as a feedstock to generate oxalic acid.
* It has been reported that formate can be formed by the electrochemical reduction of  (in the form of bicarbonate) at a lead cathode at pH 8.6:
or
If the feed is  and oxygen is evolved at the anode, the total reaction is: