ABSTRACT

A recent development of dendritic macromolecules has provided

a new methodology for the design of well-controllable three-

dimensional nano-object. Dendrimers generally consist of three dif-

ferent topological parts, i.e., focal core, monomeric building blocks,

numbers of terminal functional groups. For the design of novel

photofunctional nano-devices, many efforts have been paid for the

incorporation of porphyrin derivatives into each topological parts

of dendrimer structure. In this chapter, we are going to discuss

about energy and electron transfer processes in dendritic architec-

ture with porphyrin derivatives.