Inhaltsangabe1. The Role of Silicon in Dendritic Polymer Chemistry Petar R. Dvornic and Michael J. Owen 2. Polysiloxane and Siloxane-Based Dendrimers Aziz Muzafarov and Evgenij Rebrov 3. Carbosilane Dendrimers Jacques Roovers and Jianfu Ding 4. Polysilane Dendrimers Masato Nanjo and Akira Sekiguchi 5. Polycarbosilazane and Related Dendrimers and Hyperbranched Polymers David Y. Son 6. Silyl Ether Containing Dendrimers with Cyclic Siloxane Cores Chungkyun Kim 7. Polyhedral Oligomeric Silsesquioxane Dendrimers Katherine J. Haxton and Russell E. Morris 8. Organometallic Silicon-Containing Dendrimers and Their Electrochemical Applications Isabel Cuadrado 9. Polycarbosilane Dendrimers: Molecular Supports and Containers for Homogeneous Catalysis and Organic Synthesis Maaike Wander, Robertus J.M. Klein Gebbink, and Gerard van Koten 10. Liquid Crystalline Silicon-Containing Dendrimers with Terminal Mesogenic Groups Valery Shibaev and Natalia Boiko 11. SiliconOrganic Dendrimers Petar R. Dvornic, Michael J. Owen, and Rakesh Sachdeva 12. Hyperbranched Polycarbosilanes via Nucleophilic Substitution Reactions Leonard Interrante and Qionghua Shen 13. Hyperbranched Polycarbosilanes and Polycarbosiloxanes via Hydrosilylation Polymerization Hanna Schüle and Holger Frey 14. Rearranging Hyperbranched Silyl Ether Polymers Daniel Graiver 15. Cyclization Issues in Silicon-Containing Hyperbranched Polymers David Y. Son 16. HyperbranchedSilicon-Containing Polymers via Non-linear Bimolecular Polymerization Petar R. Dvornic and Dale J. Meier