This compound adopts a distinctive structure, but it has no applications and has been only lightly studied.

It can be prepared by treating basic beryllium carbonate with hot acetic acid.

Basic beryllium acetate is insoluble in water but soluble in chloroform, consistent with it being nonpolar.

The solubility of the salt in organic solvents (chloroform) is useful to extract and purify beryllium rich fractions for many purposes.

Basic beryllium acetate single crystals can easily be grown and are helpful to align x-ray diffractometers and also as a reference in protein crystallography.