Fluorine-Containing Block and Gradient Copoly(2-oxazoline)s Based on 2-(3,3,3-Trifluoropropyl)-2-oxazoline: A Quest for the Optimal Self-Assembled Structure for F-19 Imaging
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Result code in IS VaVaI
<a href="https://www.isvavai.cz/riv?ss=detail&h=RIV%2F00023001%3A_____%2F21%3A00081167" target="_blank" >RIV/00023001:_____/21:00081167 - isvavai.cz</a>
Result on the web
<a href="https://pubs.acs.org/doi/pdf/10.1021/acs.biomac.1c00367" target="_blank" >https://pubs.acs.org/doi/pdf/10.1021/acs.biomac.1c00367</a>
DOI - Digital Object Identifier
<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1021/acs.biomac.1c00367" target="_blank" >10.1021/acs.biomac.1c00367</a>
Alternative languages
Result language
angličtina
Original language name
Fluorine-Containing Block and Gradient Copoly(2-oxazoline)s Based on 2-(3,3,3-Trifluoropropyl)-2-oxazoline: A Quest for the Optimal Self-Assembled Structure for F-19 Imaging
Original language description
The use of fluorinated contrast agents in magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) facilitates improved image quality due to the negligible amount of endogenous fluorine atoms in the body. In this work, we present a comprehensive study of the influence of the amphiphilic polymer structure and composition on its applicability as contrast agents in F-19 MRI. Three series of novel fluorine-containing poly(2-oxazoline) copolymers and terpolymers, hydrophilic-fluorophilic, hydrophilic-lipophilic-fluorophilic, and hydrophilic-thermoresponsive-fluorophilic, with block and gradient distributions of the fluorinated units, were synthesized. It was discovered that the CF3 in the 2-(3,3,3-trifluoropropyl)-2-oxazoline (CF3EtOx) group activated the cationic chain end, leading to faster copolymerization kinetics, whereby spontaneous monomer gradients were formed with accelerated incorporation of 2-methyl-2-oxazoline or 2-n-propyl-2-oxazoline with a gradual change to the less-nucleophilic CF3EtOx monomer. The obtained amphiphilic copolymers and terpolymers form spherical or wormlike micelles in water, which was confirmed using transmission electron microscopy (TEM), while small-angle X-ray scattering (SAXS) revealed the core-shell or core-double-shell morphologies of these nanoparticles. The core and shell sizes obey the scaling laws for starlike micelles predicted by the scaling theory. Biocompatibility studies confirm that all copolymers obtained are noncytotoxic and, at the same time, exhibit high sensitivity during in vitro F-19 MRI studies. The gradient copolymers provide the best F-19 MRI signal-to-noise ratio in comparison with the analogue block copolymer structures, making them most promising as F-19 MRI contrast agents.
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Czech description
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Classification
Type
J<sub>imp</sub> - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the Web of Science database
CEP classification
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OECD FORD branch
10608 - Biochemistry and molecular biology
Result continuities
Project
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Continuities
I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace
Others
Publication year
2021
Confidentiality
S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů
Data specific for result type
Name of the periodical
Biomacromolecules
ISSN
1525-7797
e-ISSN
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Volume of the periodical
22
Issue of the periodical within the volume
7
Country of publishing house
US - UNITED STATES
Number of pages
13
Pages from-to
2963-2975
UT code for WoS article
000674171500016
EID of the result in the Scopus database
2-s2.0-85110277175