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Functional dendrimers, hyperbranched and star polymers

Suprasupermolecules with Novel Properties: Metallodendrimers.

Organometallic Polymers with Transition Metals in the Main Chain.

Ordered mesoporous materials prepared by the template route have attracted increasing interest from the electrochemists community due to their plenty of unique properties and functionalities that can be effectively exploited in electrochemical devices. This review will cover the whole field of the intersection between electrochemistry and ordered mesoporous materials. The latter are either electronically insulating (silica and some other metal oxides, as well as silica-based organic–inorganic hybrid materials), semi-conducting (metal oxides), or conducting (metals, carbons). The three main intersection areas are: (1) the development/use of electrochemical methods to characterize the properties of mesoporous materials (i.e., charge and mass transfer processes); (2) the generation of mesostructured solids by electro-assisted deposition using appropriate templates; and (3) the application of these novel materials for electrochemical purposes. The most common devices to date are based on a bulk composite or thin film configuration and the resulting electrodes modified with such mesoporous materials have been successfully applied in various fields, including mainly electrochemical sensing and biosensing as well as energy conversion and storage (620 references).

Mesoporous materials and electrochemistry

Dendrimers containing heteroatoms (si, p, B, ge, or bi).

Ferrocenyl-Functionalized Poly(propylenimine) Dendrimers

Dendrimers Containing Organometallic Moieties Electronically Communicated

1,1‘-Bis(dimethylvinylsilyl)ferrocene as a Two-Directional Core for the Construction of Homo- and Heterometallic Systems

A novel type of redox-active materials, which to our knowledge are the first examples of mesoporous silica hosts containing dendritic guest molecules within their highly ordered channels, is presented. A simple and efficient synthetic route has been used to incorporate poly(propyleneimine) dendrimers containing 4, 8, and 64 amidoferrocenyl moieties (1−3) into MCM-41. In these new composite materials (dend-n-MCM-41, n = 1−3) the integrity of the guest after the inclusion process is maintained (as confirmed by elemental analyses, IR, and 13C CP MAS NMR spectroscopy), resulting in stable dendrimer−matrix complexes. X-ray diffraction, nitrogen adsorption isotherms, and transmission electron microscopy are consistent with the full occupancy of the channels by the smallest dendrimer, whereas less effective inclusion is obtained with the bulkier macromolecules. One significant feature of these new composite materials is that the guest dendrimers, containing a controlled number of ferrocenyl units, are easily acc...

M. Moran

Papers

Ferrocenyl-Functionalized Poly(propylenimine) Dendrimers

Dendrimers Containing Organometallic Moieties Electronically Communicated

1,1‘-Bis(dimethylvinylsilyl)ferrocene as a Two-Directional Core for the Construction of Homo- and Heterometallic Systems

Ferrocenyl Dendrimers Incorporated into Mesoporous Silica: New Hybrid Redox-Active Materials†

Cyclopentadienyliron Complexes with P=S Ligands; Synthesis and Electrochemical Behavior.