The chemical was originally developed for use in conjunction with the manufacture of basic dyes, vanillin and Michler's ketone. It has a number of other varied uses, such as with MBTH in a colorimetric peroxidase determination. It is used as a reagent in a sensitive procedure using p-anisidene-N, N-dimethylaniline for the catalytic determination of micro-amounts of ferric and ferrous ions in as little as 10-7 mole.
This component is used in various embedding resin systems such as SPI Chem Low Acid HPMA for Light Microscopy.
