Neutral gadolinium(III) complexes of bulky octadentate dtpa derivatives as potential contrast agents for magnetic resonance imaging

  • S. W. Annie Bligh*
  • , Anwar H.M.S. Chowdhury
  • , Mary McPartlin
  • , Ian J. Scowen
  • , Robert Bulman
  • *Corresponding author for this work

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    Abstract

    A series of bulky and neutral gadolinium complexes of [bis(R-amide)dtpaH3] (where R = Pri,, Bui,, Bz and phenylethyl, L1--L4)) with potential application as contrast agents for magnetic resonance imaging has been prepared and characterized ; the relaxivity of these complexes is comparable to the contrast agent [Gd(dtpa)(H2OO)]; which is which is currently used in clinics; the X-ray structure analysis of the gadolinium(III) complex of L3 reveals a neutral nine-coordinate complex featuring a water molecule in the tricapped trigonal prismatic metal coordination sphere.

    Original languageEnglish
    Pages (from-to)567-569
    Number of pages3
    JournalPolyhedron
    Volume14
    Issue number4
    DOIs
    Publication statusPublished - Feb 1995

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    Acknowleulyc~ments-We thank the S.E.R.C. for financial support (I.J.S.) and access to the Chemical Database Service at Daresbury. and Dr Orla Ni Dhubhghaill (Insti-tut de Chimie Minerale et Analytique. Lausanne) for the relaxivity measurements.

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