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Nature Chemistry (18 July 2008) | doi:10.1038/nchem.37

Isotope labelling: Tagging formaldehyde

Stephen Davey

The ability to incorporate radiolabelled atoms into small molecules is important for their use in, for example, in vivo drug studies by positron emission tomography. However, methods of introducing such labels are limited by the possible sources of labelled atoms.