@article{discovery1402217, year = {2013}, title = {A mild synthesis of N-functionalised bromomaleimides, thiomaleimides and bromopyridazinediones}, journal = {Tetrahedron Letters}, number = {27}, note = {Copyright {\copyright} 2013 The Authors. Published by Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-No Derivative Works License, which permits non-commercial use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.}, pages = {3493 --3495}, volume = {54}, month = {July}, keywords = {Bromomaleimides, Thiomaleimides, Pyridazinediones, Reagent synthesis, Reagents for cysteine modification}, abstract = {Bromomaleimides are useful building blocks in synthesis and powerful reagents for the selective chemical modification of proteins. A mild new synthesis of these reagents is described, along with the convenient transferability of the approach to dithiomaleimides and bromopyridazinediones.}, url = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.tetlet.2013.04.088}, author = {Castaneda, L and Wright, ZVF and Marculescu, C and Tran, TM and Chudasama, V and Maruani, A and Hull, EA and Nunes, JPM and Fitzmaurice, RJ and Smith, MEB and Jones, LH and Caddick, S and Baker, JR}, issn = {0040-4039} }