title: Unusually sharp dependence of water exchange rate versus lanthanide ionic radii for a series of tetraamide complexes.
abstract: The tetraamide ligand, DOTA-tetra(glycine ethyl ester), forms complexes with the lanthanide(III) cations that exist in solution predominantly as the square antiprism structure with single, slowly exchanging inner-sphere water molecule. Variable-temperature 1H and 17O NMR studies revealed that the bound water lifetimes in these complexes were sharply dependent upon the ionic radius of Ln3+ cation. A novel lanthanide-induced shift technique was used to unmask the bound water 17O resonance of SmL3+ and YL3+ complexes from the bulk water resonance. The bound water lifetime (tauM298) was approximately 800 mus in the EuL3+ complex but became much shorter (several microseconds) for Ln3+ cations with larger and smaller ionic radii. This demonstrates that water exchange is exquisitely fine-tuned in this macrocyclic tetraamide system and that a variety of Ln3+ complexes meet with the exchange requirement, Deltaomega*tauM >/= 1, necessary for an efficient MT agent.
authors.affiliation: Department of Chemistry, University of Texas at Dallas, P.O. Box 830688, Richardson, Texas 75083, USA.
authors.forename: Shanrong
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Zhang
authors.forename: Kuangcong
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Wu
authors.forename: A Dean
authors.initials: AD
authors.lastname: Sherry
mesh_terms: D000577:Amides / Q000737:chemistry; D007700:Kinetics; D028581:Lanthanoid Series Elements / Q000737:chemistry*; D009682:Magnetic Resonance Spectroscopy / Q000379:methods; D014867:Water / Q000737:chemistry*
chemical_list: D000577:Amides; D028581:Lanthanoid Series Elements; D014867:Water