1. Dye intermediates, used in the manufacture of sulfur dyes, azo dyes, fur dyes and fluorescent whitening agent EB, etc. In pesticide industry, it is used as raw material of insecticide phoxim.
2. It is mainly used for making acid mordant Blue R, sulfurized yellow brown, etc. it can also be used as fur dye. In the cosmetics industry, it is used to make hair dyes (as coordination dyes).
3. Determination of silver and tin and verification of gold. It is the intermediate of diazo dyes and sulfur dyes.