Tripodal hexadentate hydroxypyridin-4-ones are increasingly utilised as iron(III) and gallium(III) ligands, their attachment to proteins being particularly useful for positron emission tomography (PET). A widely studied tripodal ligand NTA(BuHP)3, which is reported to form 1:1 iron(III) and gallium(III) complexes in aqueous, media forms 2:2 complexes under physiological conditions. This importa...

3LIHOPO2TAM, 4LIHOPO2TAM, 5LIHOPO2TAM, 6LIHOPO2TAM and 5LIOHOPO2 TAM represent a new class of linear, hexadentate hydroxypyridinone-containing ligands explored as iron(III) sequestering agents. The ligands incorporate the bifunctional 2,3-dihydroxyterephthalamide (TAM) unit as an integral part of the backbone linking two terminal 3,2-hydroxypyridinone (HOPO) units. The ferric complexes of 5LIHO...

A simple and rapid method with low radiation exposure risk was developed for the determination of neodymium in spent nuclear fuel by capillary electrophoresis with laser-induced fluorescence detection using a fluorescent probe having a macrocyclic hexadentate polyaminocarboxylate structure. The concentration of Nd(III) in a spent nuclear fuel sample was determined with no interference from vari...

Acyclic pyrazine-2-carboxamide and thioether containing hexadentate ligand 1,4-bis[o-(pyrazine-2-carboxamidophenyl)]-1,4-dithiobutane (H(2)bpzctb), in its deprotonated form, has afforded light brown [Ni(II)(bpzctb)](1)(S=1) and green [Cu(II)(bpzctb)](2)(S=1/2) complexes. The crystal structures of 1.CH(3)OH and 2.CH(2)Cl(2) revealed that in these complexes the ligand coordinates in a hexadentate...

The thermodynamic stabilities of the Gd(III) complexes of five hexadentate ligands, which incorporate the 2,3-dihydroxyterephthalamide and 2,3-hydroxypyridonate chelating moieties, have been determined by potentiometric and spectrophotometric titration. The ligands were chosen to span a range of basicities while maintaining a similar tripodal structural motif, facilitating a study of the effect...

in this paper, we report the synthesis and characterization of a new symmetric macroacyclic schiff base ligand (h2l) and related complexes with different metals. (h2l) was synthesized by the one pot condensation reaction of 2-[2-(2-formyl phenoxy)ethoxy]benzaldehyde and 2-aminobenzenethiol in a 1:2 molar ratio. the acyclic schiff base was characterized by ir, nmr spectroscopy and elemental anal...

A new potentially hexadentate P(2)N(4) ligand has been prepared and its coordination chemistry to Pd(II) and Pt(II) investigated. The ligand bonds in a chelating fashion via the diphosphine backbone to PdCl(2) and PtCl(2) while the appended pyridyl groups remain non-bonding. Abstraction of the chloride ions from the platinum complex results in fluxional exchange of the pyridyl groups in solutio...

The fluorescence intensity of the iron-CP691 complex in the presence of a competing multidentate ligand is associated with pFe(3+) of the competing ligand and the relative fluorescence has a linear correlation with the pFe(3+) values. A correlation was also found to exist between the relative fluorescence and the ratio of a competing ligand to the probe CP691. Based on this assay, the pFe(3+) v...

The therapeutic effect of iron (Fe) chelators on the potentially toxic plasma pool of nontransferrin-bound iron (NTBI), often present in Fe overload diseases and in some cancer patients during chemotherapy, is of considerable interest. In the present investigation, several multidentate pyridinones were synthesized and compared with their bidentate analogue, deferiprone (DFP; L1, orally active) ...