Five net reductive organic transformations were chosen to assess the interchangeability between the use of a sacrificial metal anode and the use of an inert carbon-based anode with tetrabutylammonium borohydride (NBu 4 BH 4 ) as anodic fuel: hydrodesulfurization of thioethers, hydrodeoxygenation of alcohols, Birch-type reduction of arenes, cross-electrophile coupling of alkyl halides and desulfurative borylation. The first transformationhydrodesulfurization of aryl alkyl thioethers -was recently reported by us. Gratifyingly, the transformation could successfully be carried out using either a sacrificial magnesium anode with a tin cathode, producing near identical yields of alkanes 2a-f using either counter reaction strategy (Figure , top left). Control reactions using conditions B in the absence of either NBu 4 BH 4 or current did not result in any product formation, confirming that the transformation is electrochemically driven and that the borohydride is required for electroreductive product formation.