Membranes dendrimer

Based on preliminary photophysical end biological investigations a conclusion can be taken that the dendrimer membrane possesses promising properties for applying in biosensor and immunosensor constructions with fluorescent detection (Grabchev et al. 2007b) (Fig. 3). 

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... 

Host-guest systems made from dendritic materials have potential in the areas of membrane transport and drug delivery [68, 84, 85]. In a recent report [136] Tomalia and coworkers investigated structural aspects of a series of PAM AM bolaamphiphiles (e.g., 50) with a hydrophobic diamino do decane core unit. Fluorescence emission of added dye (nile red) was significantly enhanced in an aqueous medium in the presence of 50 unlike the cases when 51 and 52 were added (Fig. 23). Addition of anion surfactants to this mixture generated supramolecular assemblies which enhanced their ability (ca.by 10-fold) to accommodate nile red (53). Further increase in emission was noted by decreasing the pH from the normal value of 11 for PAMAM dendrimers to 7. At lower pH values the... 

After cooling to room temperature, the sugar-dendrimer derivative may be precipitated with a large volume of methanol. The precipitate may be purified from reaction products by dialysis against water or buffer using a membrane with a molecular weight cutoff of 3500 Daltons. The final product may be stored frozen or lyophilized to a white powder. 

Dilute the reaction mixture 10-fold with 50 percent methanol/water and purify the epoxy-activated dendrimer by repeated ultrafiltration using a membrane with a molecular... 

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. 

Another way of retaining the catalyst is to create dendrimer-supported ligands, thereby allowing separation of the product and catalyst by membranes. Based on the readily modified BICOL backbone, two dendrimer-Hgands 43 were prepared that had performance comparable to that of MonoPhos 29 a in the hydrogenation of methyl N-acyl dehydrophenylalanine [81]. 

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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