In this paper, we mainly investigate the class-preserving Coleman automorphisms of finite groups whose Sylow 2-subgroups are semidihedral. We prove that if [Formula: see text] is a finite solvable group with semidihedral Sylow 2-subgroups, then [Formula: see text] is a [Formula: see text]-group and therefore [Formula: see text] satisfies the normalizer property. As some applications of this result, we also investigate the normalizer property of the following groups: the groups whose Sylow 2-subgroups are semidihedral and Sylow subgroups of odd order are all cyclic, the groups [Formula: see text] with [Formula: see text] a nilpotent normal subgroup and [Formula: see text] a maximal class 2-group, and the wreath products [Formula: see text] with [Formula: see text] a group whose Sylow 2-subgroups are of maximal class with order [Formula: see text] and [Formula: see text] a rational permutation group.