Nanoparticle-Cored Dendrimers: Synthesis and Characterization
- 1 May 2003
- journal article
- Published by American Chemical Society (ACS) in Journal of the American Chemical Society
- Vol. 125 (21) , 6491-6502
- https://doi.org/10.1021/ja029544m
Abstract
The synthesis and characterization of a group of new dendrimers-namely, nanoparticle-cored dendrimers (NCDs)-are described. These materials were obtained by the reduction of hydrogen tetrachloroaurate phase-transferred into toluene in the presence of Fréchet-type polyaryl ether dendritic disulfide wedges of generation 1-5. These materials, possessing nanometer-sized gold clusters at the core and dendritic wedges radially connected to the core by Au-S bonds, were analyzed by TEM and TGA, and by UV, IR, and NMR spectroscopies. The number of branching units connected to the core decreased with the generation of the dendritic wedge, and this number changed from 2.18/nm(2) for Au-G-2 to 0.27/nm(2) for Au-G-5. This result suggests that, in the higher-generation NCDs, a large fraction of the surface area of the metal cluster is not passivated and is therefore available for catalytic activity.Keywords
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