Theranostic Nuclear Medicine with Gallium-68, Lutetium-177, Copper-64/67, Actinium-225, and Lead-212/203 Radionuclides: Focus Review

KA Morgan, SE Rudd, A Noor, PS Donnelly - Chemical Reviews, 2023 - ACS Publications
Molecular changes in malignant tissue can lead to an increase in the expression levels of
various proteins or receptors that can be used to target the disease. In oncology, diagnostic …

Development of 225Ac radiopharmaceuticals: TRIUMF perspectives and experiences

AKH Robertson, CF Ramogida… - Current …, 2018 - ingentaconnect.com
Background: The development of radiopharmaceuticals containing 225Ac for targeted alpha
therapy is an active area of academic and commercial research worldwide. Objectives …

An eighteen‐membered macrocyclic ligand for actinium‐225 targeted alpha therapy

NA Thiele, V Brown, JM Kelly… - Angewandte Chemie …, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
The 18‐membered macrocycle H2macropa was investigated for 225Ac chelation in targeted
alpha therapy (TAT). Radiolabeling studies showed that macropa, at submicromolar …

Selective and efficient biomacromolecular extraction of rare-earth elements using lanmodulin

GJP Deblonde, JA Mattocks, DM Park… - Inorganic …, 2020 - ACS Publications
Lanmodulin (LanM) is a recently discovered protein that undergoes a large conformational
change in response to rare-earth elements (REEs). Here, we use multiple physicochemical …

Actinium-225 for targeted α therapy: coordination chemistry and current chelation approaches

NA Thiele, JJ Wilson - Cancer biotherapy & radiopharmaceuticals, 2018 - liebertpub.com
The α-emitting radionuclide actinium-225 possesses nuclear properties that are highly
promising for use in targeted α therapy (TAT), a therapeutic strategy that employs α particle …

Radiochemistry: a hot field with opportunities for cool chemistry

GD Bowden, PJH Scott, E Boros - ACS Central Science, 2023 - ACS Publications
Recent Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approval of diagnostic and therapeutic
radiopharmaceuticals and concurrent miniaturization of particle accelerators leading to …

The coordination properties and ionic radius of actinium: A 120-year-old enigma

GJP Deblonde, M Zavarin, AB Kersting - Coordination Chemistry Reviews, 2021 - Elsevier
Actinium is an elusive element with untamed properties and represents a peculiar case in
the periodic table, as its isotopes are all radioactive, the longest-lived one having only a 22 …

Relativistic quantum chemical calculations show that the uranium molecule U2 has a quadruple bond

S Knecht, HJA Jensen, T Saue - Nature chemistry, 2019 - nature.com
Understanding the bonding, reactivity and electronic structure of actinides is lagging behind
that of the rest of the periodic table. This can be partly explained by the challenges that one …

Bond covalency and oxidation state of actinide ions complexed with therapeutic chelating agent 3, 4, 3-LI (1, 2-HOPO)

MP Kelley, GJP Deblonde, J Su, CH Booth… - Inorganic …, 2018 - ACS Publications
The hydroxypyridinone ligand 3, 4, 3-LI (1, 2-HOPO) is a promising agent for biological
decorporation of radionuclides, and allows spectroscopic detection of many lanthanide (Ln) …

Influence of Linker Identity on the Photochemistry of Uranyl-Organic Frameworks

JG Knapp, MY Livshits, JC Gilhula… - … Applied Materials & …, 2023 - ACS Publications
While uranyl-based metal–organic frameworks (MOFs) boast impressive photocatalytic
abilities, significant questions remain regarding their excitation pathways and methods to …