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Preparation, Purification, and Characterization of Lanthanide Complexes for Use as Contrast Agents for Magnetic Resonance Imaging
Published on: July 21, 2011
Controllable syntheses and magnetic properties of novel homoleptic triple-decker lanthanide complexes
Feng Gao1, Lei Wang2, Guang-Zhou Zhu1
1School of Chemistry & Materials Science, Jiangsu Key Laboratory of Green Synthetic Chemistry for Functional Materials, Jiangsu Normal University, Xuzhou 221116, P. R. China. gf2016@jsnu.edu.cn.
Abstract:
Four novel homoleptic triple-decker lanthanide complexes, [Ln2(L)(Cl-salphen)2]·0.5ClCH2CH2Cl (Ln3+ = Gd3+ (1), Ho3+ (2), Tb3+ (3), and Dy3+ (4)), have been designed and synthesized based on a Schiff base ligand N,N'-bis(5-chlorosalicylidene)-o-phenylenediamine (Cl-salphenH2) and the building blocks [(acac)4Ln2(L)]; these complexes were derived from a closed-macrocyclic ligand (H2L) obtained by the [2 + 2] template condensation of 2,6-diformyl-4-methylphenol and 1,3-diaminopropane in the presence of lanthanide acetylacetonates. Single-crystal X-ray analyses show that central Ln3+ ions adopt distorted square antiprism conformations with D4d symmetry. Theoretical analysis and magnetic measurements reveal that Dy complex 4 behaves as a typical SMM with the characteristics of slow magnetic relaxation behavior and intermetallic ferromagnetic interaction.
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