@article {2963, title = {Rapid Catalyst Capture Enables Metal-Free para-Hydrogen-Based Hyperpolarized Contrast Agents}, journal = {The Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters}, volume = {9}, year = {2018}, month = {05/2018}, pages = {2721{\textendash}2724}, abstract = {

Hyperpolarization techniques based on the use of\ para-hydrogen provide orders of magnitude signal enhancement for magnetic resonance spectroscopy and imaging. The main drawback limiting widespread applicability of\ para-hydrogen-based techniques in biomedicine is the presence of organometallic compounds (the polarization transfer catalysts) in solution with hyperpolarized contrast agents. These catalysts are typically complexes of platinum-group metals, and their administration in vivo should be avoided. Herein, we show how extraction of a hyperpolarized compound from an organic phase to an aqueous phase combined with a rapid (less than 10 s) Ir-based catalyst capture by metal scavenging agents can produce pure\ para-hydrogen-based hyperpolarized contrast agents, as demonstrated by high-resolution nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) spectroscopy and inductively coupled plasma atomic emission spectroscopy (ICP-AES). The presented methodology enables fast and efficient means of producing pure hyperpolarized aqueous solutions for biomedical and other uses.

}, doi = {10.1021/acs.jpclett.8b01007}, url = {https://pubs.acs.org/doi/abs/10.1021/acs.jpclett.8b01007}, author = {Danila A Barskiy and Lucia A Ke and Xingyang Li and Vincent Stevenson and Nevin Widarman and Hao Zhang and Ashley Truxal and Alexander Pines} }