Furfural ^[1] as also a building block for compounds applied as pharmaceuticals, as insecticides, as microbicides, as fungicides, and for special polymers.

Example:

(2S)-phenyl-3-piperidone is an intermediary for many drugs compound is an intermediate in the synthesis of compounds which possess pharmacological activity. A group of researchers published in May 2014 their " efficient synthetic route towards tosyl-protected (2S)-phenyl-3-piperidone, a common intermediate for many drugs, has been developed in 5 steps with 54% yield from biomass derived furfural " [ 1 ]. The starting material for the synthesis was sun-dried rice straw ^[2] , which was "collected from a rice straw