Dendritic catalysis—Basic concepts and recent trends

• Overview of basic concepts, seminal studies, recent progress and breakthroughs in dendritic catalysis.
• Locations of catalytic entities include core, periphery, nanoparticles and building block.
• Metallodendritic catalysts, dendrimer-stabilized nanoparticle catalysts and dendritic organocatalysts.
• Essential new concepts have emerged with various positive and negative dendritic effects.

In this review, attention is focused on briefly summarizing the main concepts of dendrimers in catalysis and essentially reviewing new breakthroughs and trends in this area that have appeared during the last few years. Dendrimers have been proposed to bridge the gap between homogeneous and heterogeneous catalysis, and dendritic catalysts have the potential to approach catalysts benefiting from high activity, high selectivity, high stability, and easy separation.

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