Abstract
The first poly(amidoamine) (PAMAM) dendrimers tethered with both (η 5-cyclopentadienyl) rhenium tricarbonyl (CpRe(CO) 3) units and polyethylene glycol (PEG) chains were prepared and characterized by combining NMR spectroscopy and Fourier-transform IR spectroscopy. Grafting of CpRe(CO) 3 units was achieved by reductive amination of formyl-CpRe(CO) 3 with the peripheral amines of generation 3 and 4 PAMAMs to yield dendrimers labeled with a variable number of CpRe(CO) 3 units, ranging from 8 to 14 for PAMAM-G3 and 17–30 for PAMAM-G4. PEG chains of different lengths were then attached to some of the remaining peripheral amines, and their respective ability to improve the solubility of the metallodendrimers in aqueous buffered media was evaluated. These metallodendrimers represent new infrared probes designed to be coupled to immunological reagents for the amplification of the IR signal in carbonyl metallo immunoassay (CMIA).
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