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Synthèse de pinces à fluorures dérivées d'aminoacides pour l'imagerie TEP

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This thesis project, which is part of a collaboration between the Institut de Chimie Moléculaire de l’Université de Bourgogne and the Positron Emission Tomography Research Centre, is about the synthesis of fluoride pincers derived from amino acids based on 18F-B bond construction to get a new class of PET imaging agents. First, this project concerned the design, synthesis and characterisation of new boronato and trifluoroborato phosphonium amino acid salts. Quaternisation of o-boronate phenyl phosphine with β-iodo amino esters or γ-iodo amino ester leads to the corresponding salts without racemisation and in yields up to 88%. Saponification of boronato phosphonium amino esters afford the free carboxylic acid derivatives, whereas HCl acidolysis leads to the corresponding amino compounds which offers the opportunity of further biomolecule coupling. Then, o-trifluoroborate phosphonium salts are efficiently prepared by reaction with KHF2 in solution on hydroalcoholic mixture. The kinetic stabilities of these o-trifluoroborate phosphoniums have shown extremely stable compounds to hydrolysis. Finally, [18F]-radiosyntheses of phosphonium salts was studied according to two methods : by 18F-19F isotopic exchange from trifluoroborate or by carrier added preparation of [18F]-fluoride ions from boronate phosphonium salts. Satisfactingly, after a total synthesis of 50 minutes (including azeotropic drying, synthesis and purification), [18F]-203c was obtained with a RCY on 10% decay corrected, a RCP ≥ 97% and a specific activity of 0.13 GBq/µmol.