Pure Appl. Chem., 2003, Vol. 75, No. 4, pp. 461-481
doi:10.1351/pac200375040461
Organometallic chemistry at the nanoscale. Dendrimers for redox processes and catalysis*
D. Astruc
Laboratoire de Chimie Organique et Organométallique, UMR CNRS No 5802, Université Bordeaux I, 33405 Talence Cedex, France
Abstract:
An overview of the metal-mediated synthesis and use of nanosized metallodendrimers is given with emphasis on electron-transfer processes (molecular batteries consisting in dendrimers decorated with a large number of equivalent redox-active centers) and catalytic reactions (electron-transfer-chain catalytic synthesis of dendrimers decorated with ruthenium carbonyl clusters, redox catalysis of nitrate and nitrite electroreduction in water by star-shape hexanuclear catalysts).
*Plenary lecture presented at the XXth International Conference on Organometallic Chemistry (ICOMC), Corfu, Greece, 7-12 July 2002. Other presentations are published in this issue, pp. 421-494.