• For reviews of photochemical protecting groups in organic synthesis, see: Synthesis, 1 (1980); Org. Photochem., 9, 225 (1987).
• Reagent for the protection of alcohols, etc., as ethers which can be cleaved by photolysis involving intramolecular rearrangement to derivatives of o-nitrosobenzaldehyde, which are readily cleaved by hydrolysis: J. Am. Chem. Soc., 92, 6333 (1970); J. Org. Chem., 37, 2281, 2285 (1972).