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Europium(Iii) Macrocyclic Complexes With Alcohol Pendant Groups As Chemical Exchange Saturation Transfer Agents, Mark Woods, Donald E. Woessner, Piyu Zhao, Azhar Pasha, Meng-Yin Yang, Ching-Hui Huang, Olga Vasalatiy, Janet R. Morrow, A. Dean Sherry
Europium(Iii) Macrocyclic Complexes With Alcohol Pendant Groups As Chemical Exchange Saturation Transfer Agents, Mark Woods, Donald E. Woessner, Piyu Zhao, Azhar Pasha, Meng-Yin Yang, Ching-Hui Huang, Olga Vasalatiy, Janet R. Morrow, A. Dean Sherry
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Paramagnetic lanthanide(III) complexes that contain hyperfine-shifted exchangeable protons offer considerable advantages over diamagnetic molecules as chemical exchange saturation transfer (CEST) agents for MRI. As part of a program to investigate avenues to improve the sensitivity of such agents, the CEST characteristics of europium(III) macrocyclic complexes having appended hydroxyethyl groups were investigated. The CEST spectrum of the asymmetrical complex, EuCNPHC3+, shows five distinct peaks for each magnetically nonequivalent exchangeable proton in the molecule. The CEST spectra of this complex were fitted to NMR Bloch theory to yield exchange rates between each of six exchanging proton pools (five on the …