Tracers / [11C]acetoacetate
[11C]acetoacetate
Also written as [11C]Acetoacetate; [C-11]Acetoacetate
- Radionuclide
- C-11 t½ 20.36 min
- Modality
- PET
- Production route
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- Stage
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- Syntheses indexed
- 3
What it is
- Compound class
- carboxylic acid (short-chain ketone body, acetoacetate)
- Target / mechanism
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- Clinical application
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- Theranostic pair
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Regulatory status
- FDA
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- EMA (centralised)
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- Other approvals
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- Brand names
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Clinical use
- Typical injected activity
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- Uptake time
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Reported in the literature. Not a dosing recommendation.
Published syntheses
| Module | Cassette | Purification | Yield % | RCP % | Precursor / supplier | Source |
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| TRACERlab FX2 C GE HealthCare | custom manifold | HPLC | 4.67 ± 1.36% yes | 97.1 ± 1.3% | lithium enolate of acetone (from isopropenyl acetate and MeLi) Sigma-Aldrich | 41452397 2025 EJNMMI Radiopharm Chem a GE TRACERlab FX2 C module — The decay-corrected RCY was 4.67 ± 1.36% after an average synthesis time of 15 min |
| — GE HealthCare | custom manifold | SPE | 16.1 ± 1.1% no | 97 ± 2% | chloroacetone (17-Cl) | 37608567 2024 J Labelled Comp Radiopharm Following the standard automated [11C]carbonylation protocol, the loop mixture was quenched with 0.1M NaOH — corresponding to 16.1 ± 1.1% non-decay corrected RCY |
| AllinOne (AiO) Trasis | — | SPE | 35% yes | 95% | isopropenylacetate (IPA) Sigma-Aldrich | 28806598 2017 Appl Radiat Isot TRASIS AllInOne (AIO) is a commonly used radiochemistry module for clinical GMP-grade radiopharmaceutical production — 1-[11C]acetoacetate was synthesized with high radiochemical purity (95%) and specific activity (~ 66.6 GBq/µmol, n = 30) with 35% radiochemical yield, decay corrected to end of synthesis. |
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Get in touchQuality control Preliminary — inferred from compound class
- Ph. Eur. monograph
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- USP monograph
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How this set was arrived at. base set per Ph. Eur. general monograph 0125 (rule); receptor ligand with a saturable target -> molar activity (rule); organic-phase radiosynthesis assumed from isotope/compound class, no synthesis data confirming it -> GC residual solvents (preliminary)
Tests listed by reference only. Monograph texts are copyrighted and are not reproduced here. How these are derived
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Get in touchNotes
Added from reverse module search (stage 6); 2 article(s) with C-11.