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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2011 Dec 15.
Published in final edited form as: Bioconjug Chem. 2010 Nov 9;21(12):2267–2275. doi: 10.1021/bc1002828

Table 2.

Molecular and Gd(III) ionic relaxivity of Zn-Pz-nGd(III) (n=1, 4, 8) complexes in water at 37 °C, 60 MHz.

Compounds MW (g/mol) Gd(III) ionic r1(mM−1 s−1) No. of Gd(III) Molecular r1(mM−1 s−1)
Gd595 595.7 3.21 1 3.21
Zn-Pz-1Gd(III) 1985.6 4.2* 1 4.2*
Zn- Pz-4Gd(III) 3893.9 10.5 4 42
Zn- Pz-8Gd(III) 6496.9 12.8 8 102.4
*

measured in DMSO/Water, v/v=1:5