TANG Ganghua1, 2 TANG Xiaolan3 WANG Mingfang2 LI Baoyuan2 LIANG Mingquan2 WANG Quanshi21. A simple and rapid automated synthesis of 18F-FHBG as a reporter gene expression PET imaging agent[J]. Nuclear techniques, 2009, 32(8): 609-613.
TANG Ganghua1, 2 TANG Xiaolan3 WANG Mingfang2 LI Baoyuan2 LIANG Mingquan2 WANG Quanshi21. A simple and rapid automated synthesis of 18F-FHBG as a reporter gene expression PET imaging agent[J]. Nuclear techniques, 2009, 32(8): 609-613.DOI:
A simple and rapid automated synthesis of 18F-FHBG as a reporter gene expression PET imaging agent
Via one-pot procedure in a TRACERlab FXF-N synthesizer
the fully automated synthesis of 9-(4-[18F]fluoro-3-hydroxymethylbutyl)guanine (18F-FHBG) as a reporter gene expression PET imaging agent is described in this paper. 18F-FHBG was produced via two-step reactions including nucleophilic fluorination of the precursor molecule N2-monomethoxy trityl-9-[(4-tosyl)-3-monomethoxytrityl-methylbutyl] guanine with 18F-fluoride and subsequent hydrolysis of the intermediate with protecting group with 1 mol/L HCl at the same reaction vessel
and purification with SEP-PAK C18 cartridge. The decay-uncorrected radiochemical yield of 18F-FHBG was 7%–12% (n>10)
with radiochemical purity of over 95%
and the total synthesis time was less than 40 min. One-pot synthesis procedure combined with SEP-PAK purification is easy to operate and can be used to fully automated synthesis of 18F-FHBG at an automated system such as a TRACERlab FXF-N synthesizer.