Amine-terminated polypropylene imine dendrimers

Figure 16.17 Amine-terminated polypropylene imine) dendrimers act as tridentate ligands for the complexation of transition metals [217] (a), and can function as templates for the assembly of Troger s base dizinc(ll) bis-porphyrin molecules, (b) [218]...

All dendrimers consist of inner tertiary amines, located at the branching points of the various dendritic shells (layers). The amine-terminated dendrimers, furthermore, have basic primary amine end-groups. Basicity is therefore one of the most dramatic properties of the polypropylene imine) dendrimers, and has been studied via titration experiments and calculations. Titration experiments of the dendrimers have been performed in water using 1 M hydrochloric acid. Only two equivalence points are observed for DAB-J nJr-(NH2)4 in a ratio of 2 1. From these titrations, pKa values of 10.0 (primary amine groups) and 6.7 (tertiary... 

Polypropylene imine) dendrimers (see Scheme 1 for structure) have been constructed step by step onto an amine functionalized polystyrene [38, 130, 131]. The challenge in this synthesis is finding conditions for the polypropylene imine) synthesis under which the low MW polystyrene (MW=3200) is soluble [38]. Similar poly(imine) dendrimers with carboxylic acid end groups have also been prepared [130]. The polypropylene imine) dendrimer has also been synthesized on an amino-terminated poly(2-methyl-2-oxazoline) [132]. 

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