Abstract
Direct fluorination at the 2′-arabino-position of a pyrimidine nucleoside has been a long-standing challenge, yet we recently reported such a stereospecific fluorination for the first time in the synthesis of [ 18F]FMAU, albeit in low yields. Herein we report the results of an investigation on stereospecific fluorination on a variety of precursors for synthesis of [18F]FMAU. Several precursors were synthesized in multiple steps and fluorination was performed at the 2′-arabino-position using K[18F]/kryptofix 2.2.2. All precursors produced [ 18F]FMAU in low yields.
Original language | English (US) |
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Pages (from-to) | 10326-10332 |
Number of pages | 7 |
Journal | Tetrahedron |
Volume | 68 |
Issue number | 50 |
DOIs | |
State | Published - Dec 16 2012 |
Keywords
- Fluorine-18
- PET
- Pyrimidine nucleoside
- Stereospecific fluorination
ASJC Scopus subject areas
- Biochemistry
- Drug Discovery
- Organic Chemistry