Two series of peripherally functionalised dendrimers were synthesised based on poly(ethyleneimine) and poly(amidoamine) (PAMAM) dendri-A C H T U N G T R E N N U N G mers by reaction of (R)-6-N- [(g-carboxyl)butanoyl]-aminomethyl-2,2'-bis(diphenylphosphino)-1,1'-binaphthyl ("Glutaroyl-Aminap") with first to fifth generation PPI and zeroth to fourth generation PAMAM dendrimers using ethyl-N,N-dimethylcarbodiimide (EDC)/1-hydroxybenzotriazole as coupling reagents. All dendritic ligands were characterised by NMR spectroscopy, elemental analysis and, for generations G0-G3, MALDI-TOF mass spectrometry. The relationship between the size/generation of the dendritic ligands and their catalytic properties was established in the asymmetric hydrosilylation of acetophenone. It could be shown that (R)-6-aminomethyl-2,2'-bis(diphenylphosphino)-1,1'-binaphthyl ("HAminap") can be attached to the dendrimers without any significant loss of catalytic selectivity compared to the monomeric ligand Benzoyl-Aminap. The selectivities observed in these reactions were higher than those obtained using unfunctionalised BINAP as ligand.