Dendrimer Catalysts Derived from Reactive Metal Encapsulation

3 DENDRIMER CATALYSTS DERIVED FROM REACTIVE METAL ENCAPSULATION 

Recently, two new approaches for the preparation of metallodendritic catalysts were described. The first one involves the use of PAMAM dendrimers [11] as both template and stabilizer of metal ions. The cavities of these dendrimers can serve as host type nano-reactors for metal ion guests. This strategy is referred to as reactive encapsulation . The concept was first elegantly demonstrated by 

The same authors have extended this work also to a preliminary study of the 

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