Complexes of EDTA and Related Ligands

The structure of La(EDTA)(H20)3 (reproduced by permission of Macmillan from S.A. Cotton, Lanthanides and Actinides, 1991, p. 64). 

The synthesis and study of gadolinium complexes as potential magnetic resonance imaging agents is of intense interest at the moment, and is discussed in the section on MRI in Section 5.5.2. 

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Mechanisms of metal exchange for complexes of edta and related ligands... 

Co(LLLL)(L)X] + and [Co(LLLLL)X] + Complexes. Included in this section are studies in which the non-leaving group is an open-chain or cyclic quadridentate (LLLL) or quinquedentate (LLLLL) ligand. Excluded are the complexes of edta and related ligands discussed earlier and the dioximato-complexes covered in the next section. 

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