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SUBMITTER: Pierre VC
PROVIDER: S-EPMC3188315 | biostudies-literature | 2006 Apr
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Pierre Valérie C VC Botta Mauro M Aime Silvio S Raymond Kenneth N KN
Journal of the American Chemical Society 20060401 16
Eight-coordinate hydroxypyridinone/terephthalamide GdIII complexes display high relaxivities due to their two inner sphere water molecules. This relaxivity can be further increased by functionalizing the terephthalamide moiety with an amine. A significant hydrogen bonding interaction between the amine and another water molecule close to the GdIII apparently facilitates its coordination on the open site of the metal. The resulting nine-coordinate complex has three inner sphere water molecules, wh ...[more]