Ethyl 5-(chloromethyl)-2-furancarboxylate may be employed for the synthesis of a series of novel sulfamide- and urea-based small-molecule antagonists of the protein-protein interaction IL-2/IL-2Rα.
[1] It may be employed as starting material for the synthesis of 5-hydroxymethylfuran-2-carboxylic acid.
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