The Click-to-Chelate approach is a highly efficient strategy for the radiolabeling of molecules of medicinal interest with technetium and rhenium-tricarbonyl cores. Reaction of azide-functionalized molecules with alkyne prochelators by the Cu(I)-catalyzed azide-alkyne cycloaddition (CuAAC; click reaction) enables the simultaneous synthesis and conjugation of tridentate chelating systems for the...

A variety of mechanisms have been proposed for detecting inorganic ions using magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) contrast agents. In the most widely explored approach, analyte binding to a paramagnetic metal chelate withdraws ligand(s), increasing the number (q) of inner sphere sites available for water coordination at the paramagnetic center. As a consequence, the longitudinal relaxivity (r1) of...

We report a sensitive assay method for homogeneous thrombin detection. The method is based on lanthanide chelate complementation, where the luminescent complex is split into two separate label moieties, which are intrinsically non-luminescent. A luminescent mixed chelate complex is formed only when the label moieties are brought into close proximity directed by two separate binding events of ap...

The title compound, [Ir(C(11)H(8)N)(2)(C(17)H(19)O(2))], has an octa-hedral coordination geometry around the Ir(III) atom, retaining the cis-C,C,trans-N,N chelate disposition of the two 2-phenyl-pyridine ligands. The chelate rings are nearly mutually perpendicular [the inter-planar angles range from 85.48 (17) to 89.17 (19)°]. The two 2-(2-pyrid-yl)phenyl ligands are approximately planar, with ...