Chromatographic and electrophoretic identification of the form of fluorine-18 obtained from some reactor-irradiated lithium compounds
Abstract
No-carrier-added fluorine-18 was produced by the 6Li(n, α)3H, 16O(t, n)18F reaction sequence on nuclear reactor irradiation of Li2CO3, LiOH.H2O and LiNO3. Paper chromatographic and electrophoretic separations of possible radiofluorine-labelled species, obtained after dissolution of the target compounds and subsequent purification using minimum amounts of neutral alumina, indicated the presence of only fluoride ion (18F–).
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