“…8 In addition, they are also valuable pharmaceutical and chemical intermediates, and can be converted into pyrrolidine, pyrrolidone, lactam, and other related compounds. 9,10 Over the last several decades, many appealing methods have been developed to construct maleimides and their derivatives, including nucleophilic addition of amines to maleimides under lithium Lewis acid and amine base conditions 11 (Fig. 1a), K 2 CO 3 -mediated hydrothiolation of predecorated maleimides 12 (Fig.…”