Designing Dendrimers

✍ Scribed by Sebastiano Campagna, Paola Ceroni, Fausto Puntoriero

• Publisher: Wiley
• Year: 2011
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 622
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

Research on dendrimers has exploded in the last 15 years, moving from the establishment of synthetic methodologies, particularly in the early years up to the end of nineties, towards sophisticated and wide-ranging applications. Dendrimers play an important role in many different areas, spanning from basic synthetic approaches to artificial photosynthesis, to medicine, to catalysis. The great potential of dendrimers is well-recognized by the hundreds of papers in the field and the increasing number of patents, and stimulated developments in other areas of knowledge, including new characterization techniques. However, some basic principles and methods still continue to give a unity to the field. Although several books on dendrimers have been published during these 15 years, the very recent progresses in new areas now requires a new point of view, trying to give a unifying and comprehensive outlook of the field. Since the first dendrimer was synthesized by V?gtle in 1978, dendrimers have experienced an explosion of scientific interest because of their unique molecular architecture. This resulted in over 5,000 scientific papers and patents published by the end of 2005. The proposed book will cover both fundamental and applicative aspects of dendrimer research. Chapters devoted to basic principles, synthetic methods and strategies, and advanced characterization techniques will be integrated by chapters illustrating the full potential of dendrimers in various fields, like artificial photosynthesis, multi-redox pool systems, diagnostics, biomedical and sensing purposes, design of functional nanostructures. Particular emphasis will be devoted to possible future developments.

✦ Table of Contents

Designing Dendrimers......Page 1
CONTENTS......Page 7
Preface......Page 9
List of Contributors......Page 13
1 Dendrimers as quantized nano-modules in the nanotechnology field......Page 17
2 Novel methods for dendrimer synthesis......Page 51
3 Designer monomers to tailored dendrimers......Page 73
4 Dendronized polymers: state of the art in Zurich......Page 111
5 Shape persistent polyphenylene-based dendrimers......Page 137
6 Dendrimer chemistry with fullerenes......Page 177
7 Redox and fluorescent open core dendrimers......Page 211
8 Redox-active organometallic dendrimers as electrochemical sensors......Page 235
9 Shape-persistent conjugated dendrimers for organic electronics......Page 279
10 Fine-controlled metal assembly in dendrimers......Page 319
11 Enlightening structure and properties of dendrimers by fluorescence depolarization......Page 357
12 Single-molecule spectroscopy of dendrimer systems......Page 383
13 Degradable dendrimers......Page 419
14 Porphyrin dendrimers as biological oxygen sensors......Page 479
15 Peptide dendrimers as artificial proteins......Page 521
16 Phosphorus-containing dendritic architectures: synthesis and applications......Page 545
Index......Page 579
Color Plates......Page 599