It is mainly used as the OLED pharmaceutical intermediate, as reagent for in situ desilylation and coupling of silylated alkynes, as substrate in copper-free Sonogashira coupling in aqueous acetone. It is also used in synthesis of β,β,dibromostyrenes, as starting reagent in the total syntheses of ent-conduramine A and ent-7-deoxypancratistatin (alkaloids).
