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Synthesis and study of new precursors for bimodal optic/PET or optic/SPECT imaging

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This thesis was performed at the Institut de Chimie Moléculaire de d’Université de Bourgogne (France) and in the Département de chimie de l’Université de Sherbrooke (Québec). The aim of this work was to design new BODIPY derivatives in order to obtain optimal properties for in vivo bimodal optical/PET or SPECT imaging. The modifications concern the hydrosolubilisation of these organic dyes, as well as the shifting of the absorption and emission bands toward the therapeutic window, where the light is less attenuated by biological tissues. Solutions allowing the bioconjugation of BODIPY on a bombesin derivative, a peptide which targets receptors surexpressed in tumor cells, were also investigated. A strategy for BODIPY radiofluorination, implying the introduction of a leaving group on the boron atom, is also described. Several BODIPY based multichromophoric species have also been prepared. The photophysical studies of these derivatives, reported in the second part of the thesis, have evidenced a photoinduced energy transfer between the chromophores. In these systems, BODIPY-pophyrin and BODIPY-corolle, the BODIPY moiety is alternatively donor or acceptor.