Apart from its usage in sensing acids and fluoride anions, PPA has been used in sensing Pd(0) metal by employing allyl chloroformate as a terminating end cap. This has been reported by Phillips and his research group, where they used an allyl formate endcap that stoichiometrically depolymerized within minutes upon its exposure to a catalytic amount of tetrakis(triphenylphosphine)palladium(0) (Pd(PPh)).