Synthesis and Properties of Fullerene-Rich Dendrimers

Michel Holler; Jean-François Nierengarten

doi:10.1071/CH09163

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Synthesis and Properties of Fullerene-Rich Dendrimers

Michel Holler ^A and Jean-François Nierengarten ^A ^B

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^A Laboratoire de Chimie des Matériaux Moléculaires, Université de Strasbourg et CNRS (UMR 7509), Ecole Européenne de Chimie, Polymères et Matériaux (ECPM), 25 rue Becquerel, 67087 Strasbourg Cedex 2, France.

^B Corresponding author. Email: nierengarten@chimie.u-strasbg.fr

M. Holler studied Biochemistry and Chemistry at the University of Strasbourg, France, and received his doctoral degree under the supervision of J.-F. Biellmann in Strasbourg in 1994. After postdoctoral work with R. Okazaki at the University of Tokyo, Japan (1994–1996), and P. Hultin at the University of Manitoba, Canada (1996–1997), he returned to Strasbourg as an associate professor. His research interests range from covalent chemistry of fullerenes to dendrimers and π-conjugated systems with unusual electronic and optical properties.

J.-F. Nierengarten studied Biochemistry and Chemistry at the University of Strasbourg, France, and received his doctoral degree under the supervision of J.-P. Sauvage and C. Dietrich-Buchecker in Strasbourg in 1994. After postdoctoral work with F. Diederich at the ETH-Zürich, Switzerland, during 1994–1996, he returned to Strasbourg as a CNRS researcher. In 2005, he moved to the Laboratoire de Chimie de Coordination (LCC) in Toulouse. Since 2007, he is full professor at the University of Strasbourg where he is head of the Laboratoire de Chimie des Matériaux Moléculaires. He has been awarded the bronze medal of the CNRS in 2001, the SFC-ACROS prize from the Organic Chemistry Division of the French Chemical Society in 2004 and the Grammaticakis-Neuman Prize from the French Academy of Science in 2007. His research interests range from covalent chemistry of fullerenes to dendrimers and π-conjugated systems with unusual electronic and optical properties.

Australian Journal of Chemistry 62(7) 605-623 https://doi.org/10.1071/CH09163
Submitted: 17 March 2009 Accepted: 5 June 2009 Published: 13 July 2009

Abstract

Owing to their peculiar electronic properties, fullerene derivatives are attractive building blocks for dendrimer chemistry. Whereas, for the main part, the fullerene-containing dendrimers reported so far have been prepared with a C₆₀ core, dendritic structures with fullerene units at their surface or with C₆₀ spheres in the dendritic branches have been more scarcely considered. This is mainly associated with the difficulties related to the synthesis of fullerene-rich molecules. In this review, the most recent developments on the molecular engineering of fullerene-rich dendrons and dendrimers are presented to illustrate the current state-of-the-art of fullerene chemistry for the preparation of new dendritic materials.

Acknowledgements

This research was supported by the CNRS. We warmly thank all our co-workers and collaborators for their outstanding contributions, their names are cited in the references. We further thank Prof. D. Astruc and Prof. T. Aida for having kindly provided the original files of Figs 11 and 12, respectively.

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