Synthesis and characterization of rhenium and technetium chelate-complexes of potential medicinal application

• Grant number: 07/02595-0
• Support Opportunities: Scholarships in Brazil - Doctorate
• Start date: July 01, 2007
• End date: September 30, 2011
• Field of knowledge: Physical Sciences and Mathematics - Chemistry - Inorganic Chemistry
• Principal Investigator: Victor Marcelo Deflon
• Grantee: André Gustavo de Araujo Fernandes
• Host Institution: Instituto de Química de São Carlos (IQSC). Universidade de São Paulo (USP). São Carlos , SP, Brazil

Abstract

The project consists on the preparation of new rhenium complexes with potential medicinal application. Complexes containing the rhenium radioisotopes 186Re and 188Re are used as radiopharmaceuticals in the nuclear medicine, as they are emitters of β radiation with appropriate characteristics for the clinical use, in the treatment of some types of cancer. The potentiality of medicinal application for rhenium complexes is a stimulant factor in the search for new composites, beyond the academic aspect itself, which involves their highly diversified coordination chemistry.

Academic Publications

(References retrieved automatically from State of São Paulo Research Institutions)

FERNANDES, André Gustavo de Araujo. Rhenium and technetium chelate-complexes of potential medicinal application. 2012. Doctoral Thesis - Universidade de São Paulo (USP). Instituto de Química de São Carlos (IQSC/BT) São Carlos.