Molecularly thin films of metallodendrimers

A non-covalent synthesis route to assemble metallodendrimers was extended to the fifth generation. Generation four (G(4)) was characterized by electrospray mass spectrometry. Thin films of generation five (G(5)) metallodendrimers were studied by tapping mode scanning force microscopy. Both on graphite and on mica spherical particles with a diameter of ca 15 nm were observed. (C) 1998 John Wiley gr Sons, Ltd.