Used as a chiral building block in the synthesis of pharmaceuticals, particularly in the development of central nervous system agents. Its structural features make it valuable for creating enantiomerically pure compounds, especially in the design of antidepressants and anticonvulsants. The presence of both amine and alcohol functional groups allows for versatile chemical modifications, facilitating its incorporation into more complex molecules. Commonly employed in medicinal chemistry for structure-activity relationship studies due to the bromophenyl group, which can be further functionalized via cross-coupling reactions.