All chemicals and solvents were obtained from commercial suppliers and were used without further purification, unless specified. Lutetium-177 (LuMark Lutetium-177 chloride) was purchased from IDB Holland (Baarle-Nassau, The Netherlands) and indium-111 (Indium (In-111) chloride) was purchased from Curium Netherlands BV (Petten, The Netherlands). HTK01169 and its derivatives were synthesized by solid-phase peptide synthesis (SPPS), with the exception of certain steps performed in liquid phase, as specified below. Reactions were monitored by thin-layer chromatography (TLC) using silica gel 60 F254 plates (Merck; Darmstadt, Germany) and visualized under ultraviolet light or by staining with 10% phosphomolybdic acid in ethanol. Solid-phase reactions were monitored by Kaiser test. Liquid chromatography–mass spectrometry (LC-MS) analyses were performed on an Agilent 1260 Infinity II LC/MSD XT system (Amstelveen, The Netherlands) controlled by ChemStation software. Nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) spectra were recorded in CDCl3 and CD3OD on a Bruker Ascend 600 MHz system (Leiderdorp, The Netherlands) at ambient temperature. Chemical shifts are given as δ values in ppm and coupling constants J are given in Hz. The splitting patterns are reported as s (singlet), d (doublet), t (triplet), m (multiplet), dd (doublet of doublets) and br (broad signal). Reverse-phase high-performance liquid chromatography (RP-HPLC) was performed with a Waters Alliance e2695 system (Etten-Leur, The Netherlands) equipped with a 2998 diode array (PDA) detector, a NaI(Tl) Scionix crystal (Bunnik, The Netherlands) connected to a Canberra Osprey multichannel analyzer and signal amplifier (Zellik, Belgium), and Empower 3 software. Radioactivity was measured using a PerkinElmer Wizard 2 γ-counter (Groningen, The Netherlands). Instant thin-layer iTLC-SG chromatography plates (Agilent; Folsom, CA, USA) were analysed by radio-chromatography with a bSCAN scanner (Brightspec; Antwerp, Belgium). Radiochemical yield (RCY), expressed as a percentage (%), is determined by iTLC and corresponds to the ratio of the peak area of the radiolabelled product and the peak area of all radiochemical species. Radiochemical purity (RCP), expressed as a percentage (%), corresponds to the ratio between the peak area of the radiolabelled product and the peak area of all radiochemical species integrated via radio-HPLC.
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