The development of a fast and novel methodology to generate carbon-11 carbon monoxide ([11 C]CO) from cyclotron-produced carbon-11 carbon dioxide ([11 C]CO2 ) mediated by a fluoride-activated disilane species is described. This methodology allows up to 74 % conversion of [11 C]CO2 to [11 C]CO using commercially available reagents, readily available laboratory equipment and mild reaction conditi...

Previous reports have designated the labeled derivatives of [4-(phenylamino)-quinazoline-6-yl]-amide group as the most promising EGFR-PET imaging agent candidates. To further improve tracer qualifications and increase stability and solubility, additional derivatives of this group substituted at the 7-position with various lengths of fluoro-polyethyleneglycol (F-PEG) chains were synthesized. The...

Radiochemical neutron activation analysis (RNAA) has been routinely used at the National Bureau of Standards to analyze Cd in a variety of environmentally important matrices. The method used to separate Cd from other neutron-activated products is solvent extraction. Zinc diethyldithiocarbamate [Zn(DDC)2] in chloroform will quantitatively extract Cd from an aqueous solution over a pH range from ...

1-(2-Pyridylazo-2-naphthol), PAN, has been introduced and extensively employed as a reagent in radioanalytical chemistry in our laboratories. An earlier communication dealt with the determination of micro amounts of Cu(II) by displacement of labelled zinc from Zn-PAN complexl'. The present work is intended to develop a similar method employing Zn-PAN complex for the determination of mercury(II)...

Carbon-11-labeled SarCNU [N-(2-chloroethyl)-N-nitroso-N'-(carboxamidomethylene)-N'-(methyl) - [11C]-urea], a potential chemotherapeutic agent, has been prepared by the nitrosation of the corresponding urea, N-(2-chloroethyl)-N'-(carboxamidomethylene)-N'-(methyl) [11C]urea (SarCU). SarCU was prepared by reacting sarcosinamide with [11C]-2-chloroethylisocyanate, which was itself prepared by react...