文摘
This chapter points out significant advances in the field of phosphorus-containing dendrimers. First attention is focused on recent methods of synthesis of dendrons, dendrimers, and the corresponding linear and hyperbranched polymers. The emphases are associated with the fascinating construction of a variety of surface-block dendrimers, layer-block dendrimers, layered surface-block dendrimers, and dendrons grown within a dendrimer, all these syntheses being possible because of the easy formation of polyfunctionalized monomers and dendrons. Reports dealing with the characterization of these macromolecules using several techniques are considered as well as those describing physical properties of phosphorus-containing dendrimers. Last but not least, the first really promising applications of these giant molecules in different fields — biology, materials science, catalysis — are reviewed.