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SUBMITTER: Boros E
PROVIDER: S-EPMC5558827 | biostudies-literature | 2017 May
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Boros Eszter E Srinivas Raja R Kim Hee-Kyung HK Raitsimring Arnold M AM Astashkin Andrei V AV Poluektov Oleg G OG Niklas Jens J Horning Andrew D AD Tidor Bruce B Caravan Peter P
Angewandte Chemie (International ed. in English) 20170411 20
Aqua ligands can undergo rapid internal rotation about the M-O bond. For magnetic resonance contrast agents, this rotation results in diminished relaxivity. Herein, we show that an intramolecular hydrogen bond to the aqua ligand can reduce this internal rotation and increase relaxivity. Molecular modeling was used to design a series of four Gd complexes capable of forming an intramolecular H-bond to the coordinated water ligand, and these complexes had anomalously high relaxivities compared to s ...[more]