“…Nitrobenzoic acids contain a convenient carboxylic acid group for the attachent of PEG, while the chromophonc properties arr provided by the nitrobenzene ring. MPEG has been esterified to lefluoronitrobenzoic aciâ, resulting in a chromophoric Lys-reactive PEG derivative (Ladd & Snow, 1993). However, no PEG derivatives have previously been synthesized that combine the advantages of Cys-reactivity with the chromophoric activity of the nitrobenzoic acids.…”