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Facile and improved synthesis of [11C]Me-QNB
G?mez-Vallejo, Vanessa,González-Esparza, Mikel,Llop, Jordi
, p. 470 - 473 (2012)
[11C]Me-QNB is a muscarinic acetylcholinergic receptor antagonist that has been used for the assessment of myocardial muscarinic receptors density in different cardiovascular pathologies. In the current technical note, we report a facile, highly efficient and fully automated method for the preparation of this radiotracer. The radiosynthesis was performed by reaction of [11C]CH3I with the desmethylated precursor (QNB) at room temperature using the captive solvent method. Excellent radiochemical yield (91.1 ± 2.4%, decay-corrected) and radiochemical purity (>99.5%), and good specific activity (137 ± 5 GBq/μmol) were obtained when the purification was performed by reverse phase HPLC in overall synthesis time 95%) but higher specific activity (244 ± 18 GBq/μmol) in shorter reaction times (a vial and the purification step was based on ionic chromatography.