Joaquín C. García-Martínez* Área de Química Orgánica,
Facultad de Química, Universidad
de Castilla-La Mancha, Avda. Camilo José Cela
10, 13071-CiudadReal, Spain e-Mail: jgarcia@qino-cr.uclm.es;
Since dendrimers were first reported, by Tomalia et al.,
[1]
researchers in the field
of dendrimer science have focused primarily on the synthesis and
chemical modification of these systems. At present, a wide variety
of dendrimers with different properties are known
[2]
[3]
and
many of these materials contain poly(propyleneimine) dendrimers (DABdendr)
as building blocks. It is well established that the physical properties
of dendrimers are determined by the nature of the peripheral groups3 and,
in this context, DABdendr systems have been used to prepare compounds for
different applications: for example, monolayers on gold,
[4]
liquid crystals
[5]
or additives to a liquid crystal
matrix,
[6]
dioxygen binding by copper
complexes,
[7]
cationic dendrimers for
gene delivery,
[8]
organometallic photonucleases,
[9]
carbohydrate-coated dendrimers,
[10]
cyclodextrin binding
by cobaltocenium-functionalized dendrimers,
[11]
amorphous
calcium carbonate stabilizers,
[12]
photoswitchable
supramolecular systems,
[13]
guest
molecules in encapsulation.
[14]
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