New and Efficient Routes to Biomolecules Substituted with Cyclopentadienyltricarbonylrhenium and -Technetium Derivatives

Abstract

The small, compact, robust, and nonpolar units of [CpM(CO)3] (M = Re, Tc) coupled with biomolecules may be considered as bioorganometallic entities of potential interest in the field of medicinal chemistry. However, the short half-life of useful radionuclides (186Re t1/2 = 3.7 d, 188Re t1/2 = 16.8 h, 99mTc t1/2 = 6 h), the risks inherent in their use, and their cost have led chemists to search for novel synthetic strategies that allow the rapid introduction of the [CpM(CO)3] moiety as a late step in the course of synthesizing the target molecule. The present paper describes different strategies recently reported in the literature to tackle this problem.

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