Ammonium [11C]thiocyanate: revised preparation and reactivity studies of a versatile nucleophile for carbon-11 radiolabelling

Abstract

Herein we report the preparation of ammonium [¹¹C]thiocyanate via the reaction of [¹¹C]CS₂ with ammonia. The [¹¹C]SCN⁻ ion is demonstrated as a potent nucleophile that can be used to readily generate a range of ¹¹C-labelled thiocyanate molecules in high conversions. Furthermore, novel ¹¹C-labelled thiazolone molecules can be easily prepared from the intermediate α-thiocyanatophenones via an acid mediated cyclisation reaction.