243-allyl dendrimer

Chart 1. Third-generation polyallyl dendrimer with was hydrosilylated using dimethylferrocenylsilane a theoretical number of 243 allyl branches syn- Fc(Me)2SiH to 243-Fc , a molecular battery thesized according to Scheme 20. This 243-allyl dendrimer with a theoretical number of 243 dendrimer (like the 9-allyl, 27-allyl, and 81 -allyl peripheral ferrocenyl units,... 

Scheme 26. Divergent construction of ferrocenyl dendrimers from the 9-allyl, 27-allylf 81-allyl and 243-allyl dendrimers.

Figure 11.2 Third-generation 243-allyl dendrimer synthesized according to Scheme 11.12.

In another work, the POSS-24C1 dendrimer was found to react with vinyl-magnesium bromide to give a 24-vinyl dendrimer [142]. However, POSS-24C1 also reacted with allylmagnesium bromide to give a 24-allyl dendrimer. 

Scheme 11.10 CpFe+-induced hexabenzylation of CgMeg applied to direct convergent dendrimer synthesis of a 54-allyl dendrimer.

Scheme 11.16 Ferrocenylsilylation of the polyallyl dendrimers synthesized. Example of the second generation 81-allyl dendrimer.

Table 1. Selected MALDI-TOF mass spectrum data [m/z] of Gn-Allyl dendrimers.

One of the main applications of dendrimers is in catalysis allowing easy recycling of the homogeneous catalyst by means of nanofiltration. Carbosilane dendrimers functionalized with diphenylphosphine groups at the periphery have been synthesized and characterized. Palladium complexes of these dendrimers have been used as catalysts in the allylic alkylation reaction. These dendrimeric catalysts can be used in a continuous process using a membrane reactor.509... 

Such a methodology is also useful for the chemoselective functionalization of internal voids of dendrimers. This can be accomplished for example by adding 2 equiv. of allyl, propargyl or phosphonate trifluoromethane sulfonate on the dendrimer of generation 1 71-lGj] (Scheme 34). Functionalization occurs on the sulfur atom of the two P=N-P(S) units with the quantitative formation of the... 

Decafunctionalization of ferrocene with allyl units has been used to construct a dendrimer (7) having a ferrocene-type core and ten ferrocene-type... 

Another reaction performed in the dead-end reactor discussed before, is the allylic amination of 3-phenyl-2-propenyl-carbonic acid methyl ester with morpholine. [30] First and second generation commercially available DAB-dendrimers were functionalized with diphenylphosphine groups (Figure 4.13). Two different membranes were used, the Nadir UF-PA-5 (ultrafiltration) and the Koch MPF-50 (former SELRO) (nanofiltration), which gave retentions of 99.2% and 99.9% respectively for the second generation functionalized dendrimers. 

Van Leeuwen et al. used several generations of carbosilane dendrimers with 4, 8, 24, and 36 diphenylphosphine end-groups (Figure 4.15) for the allylic alkylation reaction of allyl trifluoracetate with sodium diethyl 2-methylmalonate.[31]... 

A non-covalently functionalized dendrimer was also applied in a continuous allylic amination reaction.[33] PPI dendrimers functionalized with urea adamantyl groups can act as host molecules for phosphorus ligands equipped with acetyl urea groups (Figure 4.18). The so formed supramolecular complex was reacted with a palladium precursor... 

Both the acid and ester were applied in continuous allylic amination. The maximum conversion (ca. 80%) was reached after 1 h in both experiments. Using the acid derivative of the guest, a slight drop in activity was observed ((a) in Figure 4.19), which is probably caused by a slow deactivation of the catalyst and has also been observed for covalently functionalized dendrimers (described above). When using the ester-functionalized guest, the activity dropped faster ((b) in Figure 4.19). This decrease in activity is caused by lack of retention (99.4% for the acid vs. 97% for the ester) as well as by deactivation. 

The same ligand system was used in the allylic alkylation of allyl trifluoroacetate with sodium diethyl-2-methylmalonate showing a more or less constant conversion over 8 h (20 exchanged reactor volumes). This is in contrast to peripheral functionalized dendrimers (Section 4.4.2), which deactivated at longer reaction times. 

The team of Crooks is involved in the synthesis and the use of dendrimers and, more particularly, poly(amidoamine) dendrimers (PAMAM), for the preparation of dendrimer-encapsulated mono- or bimetallic nanoparticles of various metals (Pt, Pd, Cu, Au, Ag, Ni, etc.) [55, 56]. The dendrimers were used as nanocatalysts for the hydrogenation of allyl alcohol and N-isopropylacrylamide or other alkenes under different reaction conditions (water, organic solvents, biphasic fluorous/or-ganic solvents or supercritical COz). The hydrogenation reaction rate is dependent on dendrimer generation, as higher-generation dendrimers are more sterically... 

Another example is the palladium catalyzed allylic substitution of 3-phenyl-2-propenyl-carbonic acid methyl ester to yield iV-(3-phenyl-2-propenyl)morpho-line reported by Reetz, Kragl and co-workers. This reaction was performed in the presence of phosphino-terminated amine dendrimers [17, 18] loaded with Pd11 cations as shown in Scheme 10. For this particular dendrimer with a molecular weight of 10 212 g/mol, a retention of 0.999 per residence time [35] was estimated in a membrane reactor with a SELRO MPF-50 membrane. It must be noted that a very high retention is a prerequisite for a continuous operating system, since a small leaching of the dendrimer leads to an exponential decrease in the amount... 

The research group of Van Leeuwen reported the use of carbosilane de-ndrimers appended with peripherial diphenylphosphino end groups (i.e. 25, Scheme 26) [37]. After in situ complexation with allylpalladium chloride, the resultant metallodendrimer 25 was used as catalyst in the allylic alkylation of sodium diethyl malonate with allyl trifluoroacetate in a continuous flow reactor. Unlike in the batch reaction, in which a very high activity of the dendrimer catalyst and quantitative conversion of the substrate was observed, a rapid decrease in space time yield of the product was noted inside the membrane reactor. The authors concluded that this can most probably be ascribed to catalyst decomposition. The product flow (i.e. outside the membrane reactor)... 

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