Synthesis of New Bifunctional Maleimide Compounds for the Preparation of Chemoimmunoconjugates

Article abstract of DOI:10.1007/bf00807643

Bifunctional maleimide compounds are suitable for binding small molecules to carrier proteins in that they bind to the sulfhydryl group of proteins through the double bond of the maleimide group and to molecules of low molecular weight (e.g. anticancer drugs) through a functional group X. 18 maleimide compounds of the general formula Maleimid-R-X (R = phenylene, benzyl-, methylene-, ethylene, or a m-benzoylethylamide group and X = hydroxy-, amino-, hydrazino-, carboxylic acid-, carboxylic anhydride-, carboxylic acid chloride-, carboxylic acid hydrazide-, oxycarbonylchloride-, aldehyde, keto-, or p-toluenesulfonate-group) were synthesized and characterized through ¹H- and ¹³C-NMR-spectroscopy, elemental analysis, and mass spectrometry.