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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2009 Jan 1.
Published in final edited form as: Biomacromolecules. 2007 Nov 30;9(1):36–42. doi: 10.1021/bm700713p

Fig. 1.

Fig. 1

Synthesis of PG(DTPA)-b-PLA (A) and schematic model of the micellar structure with DTPA-Gd chelated to the shell layer (B). a: Naphthalene/K, L-lactide; b: TFA; c: Benzyl glutamate NCA; d: 1 M trifluoromethane sulfonic acid (TFMSA)/thioanisole/trifluoroacetic acid; e: DIC, pyridine, DMAP, p-aminobenzyldiethylenetriaminepenta(acetic acid tert butyl ester); and f: TFA.