Table of Contents
Preface vii
List of Contributors xi
1 Dendrimers as quantized nano-modules in the nanotechnology field 1 Jørn B. Christensen and Donald A. Tomalia
2 Novel methods for dendrimer synthesis 35 Isao Washio and Mitsuru Ueda
3 Designer monomers to tailored dendrimers 57 George R. Newkome and Carol Shreiner
4 Dendronized polymers: state of the art in Zurich 95 Afang Zhang and A. Dieter Schluter
5 Shape persistent polyphenylene-based dendrimers 121 Martin Baumgarten, Tianshi Qin, and Klaus Mullen
6 Dendrimer chemistry with fullerenes 161 Jean-Francçois Nierengarten
7 Redox and fluorescent open core dendrimers 195 Angel E. Kaifer
8 Redox-active organometallic dendrimers as electrochemical sensors 219 Carmen M. Casado, Beatriz Alonso, Jose Losada, and Maríà Pilar Garcíà-Armada
9 Shape-persistent conjugated dendrimers for organic electronics 263 Jing Yan, Fan Gao, Jian Pei, and Yuguo Ma
10 Fine-controlled metal assembly in dendrimers 303 Takane Imaoka and Kimihisa Yamamoto
11 Enlightening structure and properties of dendrimers by fluorescence depolarization 341 Giacomo Bergamini, Enrico Marchi, Paola Ceroni, and Vincenzo Balzani
12 Single-molecule spectroscopy of dendrimer systems 367 Tom Vosch
13 Degradable dendrimers 403 Marc Gingras
14 Porphyrin dendrimers as biological oxygen sensors 463 Sergei A. Vinogradov and David F. Wilson
15 Peptide dendrimers as artificial proteins 505 Tamis Darbre and Jean-Louis Reymond
16 Phosphorus-containing dendritic architectures: synthesis and applications 529 Anne-Marie Caminade and Jean-Pierre Majoral
Index 563