Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Foreword
- 1 Introduction
- 2 The dendritic state
- 3 Synthetic methodologies
- 4 Characterization methodologies
- 5 Nanomedical and advanced materials
- 6 Toxicology of dendrimers and dendrons
- 7 The dendritic effect
- 8 A quantized building block concept leading to a new nano-periodic system
- 9 The past, present, and future for dendrons and dendrimers
- Index
- References
8 - A quantized building block concept leading to a new nano-periodic system
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 05 November 2012
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Foreword
- 1 Introduction
- 2 The dendritic state
- 3 Synthetic methodologies
- 4 Characterization methodologies
- 5 Nanomedical and advanced materials
- 6 Toxicology of dendrimers and dendrons
- 7 The dendritic effect
- 8 A quantized building block concept leading to a new nano-periodic system
- 9 The past, present, and future for dendrons and dendrimers
- Index
- References
Summary
Introduction
The role of traditional chemistry as a scientific discipline and its impact on society and the human condition has been immeasurable. The central paradigm for this science is quite simply based on quantized atom building blocks and their discrete electron activity leading to bonding and assembly of these units. The ability to use intrinsic elemental periodic property patterns (i.e. the Mendeleev Periodic Table) for predicting physico-chemical properties, defining risk/benefit boundaries, and designing new molecular structures has rested solidly on the existence of a systematic scientific framework (i.e. central dogma) for the discipline. This systematic framework has not only served to unify and define traditional small molecule chemistry, but has also evolved into a platform of understanding for many related activities in physics, engineering, biology, and medicine. Although opinions may vary concerning the order of importance and content of such a framework, a general consensus usually includes the major discoveries and events set out in Table 8.1 [1–3].
First principles and central dogma for traditional chemistry
Building on A. Lavoisier’s reactive atom hypothesis and J. Proust’s proposal that atoms possess well-defined masses relative to each other, it was possible for J. Dalton to propose his atom/molecular theory, which is described in a simplified form below [3]. These statements are a modern paraphrase of Dalton’s revolutionary publication, A New System of Chemical Philosophy (1808), that launched traditional chemistry as it is recognized today.
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- Dendrimers, Dendrons, and Dendritic PolymersDiscovery, Applications, and the Future, pp. 293 - 377Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2012
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