Prototropic vs whole water exchange contributions to the solvent relaxation enhancement in the aqueous solution of a cationic Gd3+ macrocyclic complex
Prototropic vs whole water exchange contributions to the solvent relaxation enhancement in the aqueous solution of a cationic Gd3+ macrocyclic complex
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DOI:
10.1021/ja963743m
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发表时间:
1997-05-21
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15
通讯作者:
DeSousa, AS
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作者:
Aime, S;Barge, A;DeSousa, AS
The ability shown by Gd3+ complexes to enhance the nuclear relaxation rate of solvent water protons is the result of the efficient dipolar magnetic coupling between the unpaired electrons of the metal ion and the nuclear spins which is believed to occur through three processes: 1 (i) diffusion of water molecules in the proximity of the paramagnetic complex (outersphere term);(ii) exchange of the water molecules from the coordination sites to the bulk (inner-sphere term);(iii) prototropic exchange involving mobile protons of the complex and/or of the coordinated water itself. In these systems, the latter contribution is extremely difficult to evaluate because the exchange rate of the coordinated water molecules is usually much faster than the rate of prototropic exchange. 2, 3 Recently, it has been shown that Gd3+ complexes with a single coordinated water molecule (hydration number q) 1) may display rather large values of the exchange lifetime τM. 4 Moreover τM increases approximately by 1 order of magnitude on passing from the negatively charged [Gd (DTPA)] 2-(DTPA) diethylenetriaminepentaacetate) to the neutral [Gd (DTPA-BMA)](DTPA-BMA) 1, 7-bis [(N-methylcarbamoyl) methyl]-1, 4, 7-triazaheptane-1, 4, 7-triacetate) complex. 5 We thought then that a possible route to assess the contribution of the prototropic exchange to the overall water exchange may be possible in complexes characterized by an even slower water exchange rate. Thus, the observation that τM increases as the negative residual charge decreases prompted us to consider the triflate salt of the tripositively charged [Gd (DTMA)] 3+ complex [DTMA) DOTA tetrakis (methylamide)]. 6, 7DTMA (1) acts as a neutral octadentate ligand toward lanthanide (III) ions, thus forming cationic complexes capable of further coordinating one water molecule. The solution 1H and 13C NMR spectra of [Eu (DTMA)] 3+ in aqueous solution are consistent with the presence of one main, largely dominant isomer possessing a high degree of stereochemical rigidity.