Used in pharmaceutical research as a chiral building block for the synthesis of neuroactive compounds. Its structural features make it valuable in developing agents that target central nervous system receptors, particularly those involved in cognitive and psychiatric disorders. The hydroxyl and pyrrolidine functionalities allow for further chemical modifications, enabling the creation of diverse analogs for structure-activity relationship studies. It is also explored in the development of ligands for nicotinic acetylcholine receptors due to its structural similarity to known receptor modulators.