S. Malik et al., A NOVEL ONE-STEP APPROACH TO SMALL-SCALE LABELING OF ORGANIC-COMPOUNDS WITH HYDROGEN ISOTOPES, Journal of labelled compounds & radiopharmaceuticals, 34(5), 1994, pp. 471-473
A rapid method to generate tritium gas for small scale labeling is des
cribed. Tritium labelled sodium borohydride is used with cobalt (II) c
hloride to generate isotopic hydrogen gas. The reaction was carried ou
t in a closed vessel and three different compounds were concurrently l
abelled. This simple and inexpensive method can be applied to a broad
range of molecules and does not require any special set up.