Direct Reductive Alkylation of Amino Acids: Synthesis of Bifunctional Chelates for Nuclear Imaging.

ChemInform ◽  
2005 ◽  
Vol 36 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Murali K. Levadala ◽  
Sangeeta Ray Banerjee ◽  
Kevin P. Maresca ◽  
John W. Babich ◽  
Jon Zubieta
Synthesis ◽  
2004 ◽  
Vol 2004 (11) ◽  
pp. 1759-1766 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jon Zubieta ◽  
Murali Levadala ◽  
Sangeeta Banerjee ◽  
Kevin Maresca ◽  
John Babich

Synthesis ◽  
2010 ◽  
Vol 2011 (03) ◽  
pp. 490-496 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mahmood Tajbakhsh ◽  
Rahman Hosseinzadeh ◽  
Heshmatollah Alinezhad ◽  
Somayeh Ghahari ◽  
Akbar Heydari ◽  
...  

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2011 ◽  
Vol 42 (23) ◽  
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Author(s):  
Mahmood Tajbakhsh ◽  
Rahman Hosseinzadeh ◽  
Heshmatollah Alinezhad ◽  
Somayeh Ghahari ◽  
Akbar Heydari ◽  
...  

2019 ◽  
pp. 114-130
Author(s):  
A. V. Leontyev ◽  
N. A. Rubtsova ◽  
A. I. Khalimon ◽  
G. F. Khamadeeva ◽  
M. T. Kuliev ◽  
...  

This article provides a literature overview of biochemical basics and the clinical application of positron emission tomography, one of the most promising technologies of nuclear imaging in oncology. In the first part we discuss the biokinetics of metabolic radiopharmaceuticals, such as 18F-fluorodeoxyglucose, radiolabeled markers of lipid metabolism 11C- and 18F-choline, 11C-acetate, as well as amino acids analogues – 18F-dihydroxyphenylalanine, 11C-methionine, 18F-fluoroe thyltyrosine, 11C-tryptophan, 18F-flucyclovine. This article includes results of scientific researches, that studied radiopharmaceuticals’ effectiveness in oncological practice. The main indications for use, as well as promising scientific developments in this industry are presented.


1997 ◽  
Vol 161 ◽  
pp. 505-510
Author(s):  
Alexandra J. MacDermott ◽  
Laurence D. Barron ◽  
Andrè Brack ◽  
Thomas Buhse ◽  
John R. Cronin ◽  
...  

AbstractThe most characteristic hallmark of life is its homochirality: all biomolecules are usually of one hand, e.g. on Earth life uses only L-amino acids for protein synthesis and not their D mirror images. We therefore suggest that a search for extra-terrestrial life can be approached as a Search for Extra- Terrestrial Homochirality (SETH). The natural choice for a SETH instrument is optical rotation, and we describe a novel miniaturized space polarimeter, called the SETH Cigar, which could be used to detect optical rotation as the homochiral signature of life on other planets. Moving parts are avoided by replacing the normal rotating polarizer by multiple fixed polarizers at different angles as in the eye of the bee. We believe that homochirality may be found in the subsurface layers on Mars as a relic of extinct life, and on other solar system bodies as a sign of advanced pre-biotic chemistry. We discuss the chiral GC-MS planned for the Roland lander of the Rosetta mission to a comet and conclude with theories of the physical origin of homochirality.


1997 ◽  
Vol 161 ◽  
pp. 179-187
Author(s):  
Clifford N. Matthews ◽  
Rose A. Pesce-Rodriguez ◽  
Shirley A. Liebman

AbstractHydrogen cyanide polymers – heterogeneous solids ranging in color from yellow to orange to brown to black – may be among the organic macromolecules most readily formed within the Solar System. The non-volatile black crust of comet Halley, for example, as well as the extensive orangebrown streaks in the atmosphere of Jupiter, might consist largely of such polymers synthesized from HCN formed by photolysis of methane and ammonia, the color observed depending on the concentration of HCN involved. Laboratory studies of these ubiquitous compounds point to the presence of polyamidine structures synthesized directly from hydrogen cyanide. These would be converted by water to polypeptides which can be further hydrolyzed to α-amino acids. Black polymers and multimers with conjugated ladder structures derived from HCN could also be formed and might well be the source of the many nitrogen heterocycles, adenine included, observed after pyrolysis. The dark brown color arising from the impacts of comet P/Shoemaker-Levy 9 on Jupiter might therefore be mainly caused by the presence of HCN polymers, whether originally present, deposited by the impactor or synthesized directly from HCN. Spectroscopic detection of these predicted macromolecules and their hydrolytic and pyrolytic by-products would strengthen significantly the hypothesis that cyanide polymerization is a preferred pathway for prebiotic and extraterrestrial chemistry.


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