For a review of the use of circular dichroism studies of salicylidene and 5-bromo-salicylidene derivatives of chiral amines in establishing their absolute configuration by means of the "salicylidene chirality rule", see: Chem. Rev., 83, 359 (1983).
Reacts with aromatic aldehydes and ammonia to give bromosalicylidene-derivatives of arylmethylenediamines, useful in heterocyclic synthesis: Synth. Commun., 18, 2289 (1988).