The development of the Ferrier carbocyclization has been useful for the synthesis of numerous natural products that contain the carbocycle group.  In 1991, Bender and co-workers reported a synthetic route to pure enantiomers of myo-inositol derivatives using this reaction.  It has also been applied to the synthesis of aminocyclitols in work done by Barton and co-workers.  Finally, Amano et al. used the Ferrier conditions to synthesise complex conjugated cyclohexanones in 1998.