• Metal chelating agent giving complexes some of which have importance as antitumour agents. Study of diamine-platinum complexes: Investigational New Drugs, 9, 1, (1991). See also feature article on platinum antitumor chemistry: Chem. Commun., 801 (1996).
• Used in preparation of technetium complexes for brain tomography: USP 4,895,960 (1991).
• Reaction with sulfuryl chloride under free-radical conditions gives 3-chlorocyclobutanecarboxylic acid: Org. Synth. Coll., 6, 271 (1988); the product has been used in the synthesis of a nucleoside antiviral agent: Tetrahedron Lett., 30, 6955 (1989).