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Methylation as a method for synthesis of radiopharmaceuticals for positron emission tomography

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The main methods for the production of of 11С-methylating agents and traditional and new perspective routes for their use in the synthesis of radiopharmaceuticals for positron emission tomography were considered.

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Published in Russian in Izvestiya Akademii Nauk. Seriya Khimicheskaya, No. 7, pp. 1536–1546, July, 2015.

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Gomzina, N.A., Kuznetsova, O.F. & Vaulina, D.D. Methylation as a method for synthesis of radiopharmaceuticals for positron emission tomography. Russ Chem Bull 64, 1536–1546 (2015). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11172-015-1038-8

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