• Highly relaxing gadolinium based MRI contrast agents responsive to Mg2+ sensing 

      Abada, Sabah; Lecointre, Alexandre; Elhabiri, Mourad; Esteban-Gómez, David; Platas-Iglesias, Carlos; Tallec, Gaylord; Mazzanti, Marinella; Charbonnière, Loïc J. (Royal Society of Chemistry, 2012-04-28)
      [Abstract] A Gd complex based on a polyphosphonated pyridyl ligand shows a very high stability in aqueous solution (logKEuL = 25.7), a high relaxivity (8.5 mM−1 s−1 at 25 °C and 20 MHz) and a marked and selective relaxivity ...