Metallodendrimers: Structural Diversity and Functional Behavior

This review of metallodendrimers has two main goals: first, to illustrate the various structure types of metallodendrimers, demonstrating their substantial structural diversity, and second, to highlight their applications, either potential or already coming into existence. Applications include metallodendrimers as nanoparticle equivalents, for sensing and imaging, for catalysis, and as molecular antennas or for producing controlled microenvironments. Their electrochemical behavior is also considered. The difficulty of representing the three-dimensional structure of metallodendrimers is touched upon.