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.
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