Forms a complex with Pyridinium chlorochromate, which allows the selective oxidation of allylic alcohols in the presence of non-allylic alcohols: Lipids, 19, 550 (1984). Can be protected on nitrogen by hydroxymethylation with paraformaldehyde, permitting 3-lithiation with t-BuLi: Tetrahedron, 45, 4253 (1989).
