• Silver salt soluble in water and organic solvents. Used as a mild dehydrating agent for secondary and tertiary alcohols to alkenes: Chem. Lett., 287 (1972); Synth. Commun., 8, 3 (1978). Catalyst for a variety of rearrangement processes of strained systems: Synthesis, 347 (1975); Chem. Rev., 76, 461 (1976). In the presence of various Lewis acids, can be used to promote glycosidation reactions: Angew. Chem. Int . Ed., 21, 155 (1982); Chem. Rev., 93, 1503 (1993).