Good polar protic solvent, in its ester form it act as a solvent for inks paints and coatings. Used in laboratory as a solvent for recrystallization, manufacture of camphor, cellulose acetate, polyvinyl acetate. It involves in Wagner-Meerwein rearrangement. Used for preparation of mono-lithium salt of 5-sulfoisophthalic acid.
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