Journal of Nanomedicine & Nanotechnology

Phenyazomethine dendrimers as a molecular reactor

2^nd International Conference on Nanotek and Expo

December 3-5, 2012 DoubleTree by Hilton Philadelphia Center City, USA

Kimihisa Yamamoto

Keynote: J Nanomed Nanotechol

Abstract:

Dendrimers are highly branched organic macromolecules with successive layers or ?generations? of branch units surrounding a central core. Organic inorganic hybrid versions have also been produced, by trapping metal ions or metal clusters within the voids of the dendrimers. Their unusual, tree-like topology endows these nanometre-sized macromolecules with a gradient in branch density from the interior to the exterior, which can be exploited to direct the transfer of charge and energy from the dendrimer periphery to its core. Here we show that tin ions, SnCl2, complex to the imines groups of a spherical polyphenylazo- methine dendrimer in a stepwise fashion according to an electron gradient, with complexation in a more peripheral generation proceeding only after complexation in generations closer to the core has been completed. By attaching an electron-withdrawing group to the dendrimer core, we are able to change the complexation pattern, so that the core imines are complexed last. By further extending this strategy, it should be possible to control the number and location of metal ions incorporated into dendrimer structures, which might and uses as tailored catalysts, building blocks, or fine-controlled clusters for advanced materials (Figure 1)

Biography :

Kimihisa Yamamoto received his Ph.D. degrees from Waseda University in Polymer Chemistry in 1990, respectively. He was Research Associate and Associate Professor of Waseda University from 1989 to 1990 and from 1991 to 1996, respectively. He had been a professor of the Department of Chemistry at Keio University since 1997. He is now a professor of Chemical Resources Laboratory in Tokyo Institute of Chemistry. He received the Award for thead Young Chemist and the Divisional Award from the Chemical Society of Japan in 1996 and 2008, and the JSPS Wiley Award in 2005 from the Society of Polymer Science, Japan. He was also awarded the Commendation for Science and Technology by the Minister of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology, in 2012