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Intramolecular Hydrogen Bonding Restricts Gd-Aqua-Ligand Dynamics.

Eszter Boros1, Raja Srinivas2, Hee-Kyung Kim1

  • 1A. A. Martinos Center for Biomedical Imaging, Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School, 149 13th Street, Suite 2301, Charlestown, MA, 02129, USA.

Angewandte Chemie (International Ed. in English)
|April 12, 2017
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An intramolecular hydrogen bond can limit water ligand rotation, enhancing relaxivity for gadolinium (Gd) contrast agents. This strategy boosts magnetic resonance imaging contrast efficiency.

Area of Science:

  • Inorganic Chemistry
  • Materials Science
  • Biomedical Imaging

Background:

  • Water ligands on metal complexes can rotate rapidly, reducing their effectiveness as contrast agents.
  • Relaxivity, a key measure of contrast agent efficiency, is diminished by rapid water ligand motion.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To investigate if intramolecular hydrogen bonding can reduce water ligand rotation.
  • To enhance the relaxivity of gadolinium (Gd) complexes for improved MRI contrast.

Main Methods:

  • Designed and synthesized four Gd complexes with intramolecular hydrogen bond donors.
  • Utilized molecular modeling and molecular dynamics simulations to study complex behavior.
  • Measured relaxivity of the designed complexes and compared them to controls.
Keywords:
aquo-ion dynamicsgadolinium complexesmolecular dynamicsrelaxivity

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Main Results:

  • Gd complexes with intramolecular H-bonds exhibited significantly higher relaxivity.
  • Molecular dynamics confirmed the formation of stable intramolecular H-bonds.
  • Ruled out alternative explanations for the observed increase in relaxivity.

Conclusions:

  • Intramolecular hydrogen bonding is an effective strategy to decrease water ligand rotational motion.
  • This approach successfully increases the relaxivity of Gd-based MRI contrast agents.
  • The findings offer a new avenue for designing more efficient contrast agents.