• Approaching the kinetic inertness of macrocyclic gadolinium(III)-based MRI contrast agents with highly rigid open-chain derivatives 

      Tircsó, Gyula; Regueiro-Figueroa, Martín; Nagy, Viktória; Garda, Zoltán; Garai, Tamás; Kálmán, Ferenc; Esteban-Gómez, David; Tóth, Éva; Platas-Iglesias, Carlos (Wiley, 2016-01-08)
      [Abstract] A highly rigid open-chain octadentate ligand (H4cddadpa) containing a diaminocylohexane unit to replace the ethylenediamine bridge of 6,6′-[(ethane-1,2 diylbis{(carboxymethyl)azanediyl})bis(methylene)] dipicolinic ...
    • Expanding the Ligand Classes Used for Mn(II) Complexation: Oxa-aza Macrocycles Make the Difference 

      Kálmán, Ferenc; Nagy, Viktória; Uzal-Varela, Rocío; Pérez-Lourido, Paulo; Esteban-Gómez, David; Garda, Zoltán; Pota, Kristof; Mezei, Roland; Pallier, Agnès; Tóth, Éva; Platas-Iglesias, Carlos; Tircsó, Gyula (MDPI, 2021-03-10)
      [Abstract] We report two macrocyclic ligands based on a 1,7-diaza-12-crown-4 platform functionalized with acetate (𝑡O2DO2A²⁻) or piperidineacetamide (𝑡O2DO2AMᴾⁱᵖ) pendant arms and a detailed characterization of the ...
    • Rigidified Derivative of the Non-macrocyclic Ligand H₄OCTAPA for Stable Lanthanide(III) Complexation 

      Lucio Martínez, Fátima; Garda, Zoltán; Váradi, Balázs; Kálmán, Ferenc; Esteban-Gómez, David; Tóth, Éva; Tircsó, Gyula; Platas-Iglesias, Carlos (American Chemical Society, 2022-03-11)
      [Abstract] The stability constants of lanthanide complexes with the potentially octadentate ligand CHXOCTAPA4–, which contains a rigid 1,2-diaminocyclohexane scaffold functionalized with two acetate and two picolinate ...