• On a clay support, cleaves 2,4-dinitrophenylhydrazones: Synthesis, 439 (1985).
• Catalyst for preparation of alkali metal amides from the metals in liquid ammonia (numerous Organic Syntheses references).
• Details have been given for an improved method for preparation of the useful oxidizing agent potassium ferrate(VI) by oxidation with hypochlorite, and subsequent use, supported on Montmorillonite K10 clay, for the selective oxidation of benzyl alcohol or benzylamine to benzaldehyde, thiols to disulfides, aniline to azobenzene and various oximes and hydrazones to the parent ketone: J. Org. Chem., 61, 6360 (1996).
• For use in regioselective mononitration of phenols, see: Tetrahedron, 45, 1415 (1989). The reaction can also be carried out in an ionic liquid: Synth. Commun., 33, 961 (2003).