Deoxyfluorination of phenols for chemoselective18F-labeling of peptides

Riya Halder, Gaoyuan Ma, Jens Rickmeier, James W. McDaniel, Roland Petzold, Constanze N. Neumann, Jennifer M. Murphy, Tobias Ritter

Published: 2023-10-17 DOI: 10.1038/s41596-023-00890-z

peptide-based PET probes

chemoselective radiolabeling

18F-deoxyfluorination

nucleophilic aromatic substitution

radiosynthesis

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