Hydrochloric Acid → 10-[2-Hydroxy-3-(4-(2-carboxyethyl)-phenoxy)-propyl]-1,4,7-tris(carboxymethyl)-1,4,7,10-tetraazacyclododecane

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10 g (28.87 mmol) of 1,4,7-triscarboxymethyl-1,4,7,10-tetraazacyclododecane (=DO3A) and 12.99 g (51.96 mmol) of 2,3-epoxy-1-[4-(2-ethoxycarbonylethyl)-phenoxy]-propane are added in 80 ml of dioxane/60 ml of water and adjusted to pH 14 with 6N potassium hydroxide solution. It is stirred for 12 hours at room temperature. Then, it is refluxed for 2 hours. It is adjusted to pH 7 with 5N hydrochloric acid and evaporated to dryness in a vacuum. The residue is absorptively precipitated in 200 ml of ethanol/50 ml of chloroform at 60° C. The precipitated potassium chloride is filtered off and the filtrate is concentrated by evaporation in a vacuum. The residue is purified on a reversed-phase column (RP-18, washing with water, then elution with tetrahydrofuran/water=2:1). The main fractions are concentrated by evaporation in a vacuum.

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