Dendrimers Ii: Architecture, Nanostructure And Supramolecular Chemistry (topics In Current Chemistry) (v. 2)

The second volume on Dendrimers is again written by pioneers in the field. Their contributions illuminate the aspects of dendrimers mentioned in the subtitle of this volume, and also touch on areas beyond chemistry, namely material sciences as well as biological, medicinal, analytical and nano aspects. Different types of dendrimers (Polyester, POPAM, porphyrin-, podand-, organometallic-, silicon-based) with perfectly or less precisely directed cascade architectures are highlighted. Synthesis, chirality, reactivity, mechanism, host-guest interactions, polymer chemical aspects are addressed. This review is expected to again be most interesting and useful for chemists of all disciplines as well as for neighbouring bio- and material sciences. Dendrimers are a class of highly branched molecules that combine the properties of polymers as well as small discrete molecules. One classified among the exotic molecules of chemistry, dendrimers have attracted considerable attention in recent years, as their unique host/guest properties and their capability of being functionalized in the periphery as well in the core have led to new materials with a great potential for applications. This volume presents the state of art in this blossoming research area, written by pioneers in the fields. Covering the synthetic, supramolecular, stereochemical, host/guest and polymer chemistry of dendritic and hyperbranched molecules, this volume explains both theoretical and practical aspects, including chirality reactivity, mechanism, material properties and biological relevance. It is the most comprehensive and authoritative review of the area available preface......Page 1 1Polyester and Ester Functionalized Dendrimers......Page 2 2Silicon-Based Dendrimers......Page 69 3Host-Guest Chemistry of Dendritic Molecules......Page 130 4Supramolecular Dendrimer Chemistry A Journey Through the Branched Architecture......Page 182 5The First Organometallic Dendrimers Design and Redox Functions......Page 227 Dendrimers in Diagnostics......Page 258 The concept of highly branched polymers was initially proposed in the early 1940s by Flory [1 - 4] and Stockmayer [5].