Dendritic nitrogen-containing organic compounds containing planar-chiral or axial-chiral end groups and the preparation and use thereof

A dendritic nitrogen-containing organic compound which contains at least 4 planar-chiral or axial-chiral groups, where these planar-chiral or axial-chiral groups are linked as Schiff's bases to the primary amino groups of compounds of the formula (I)

• (R.sup.1 R.sup.1)N--X--N(R.sup.1 R.sup.1) (I)
• where
• R.sup.1 is (R.sup.2 R.sup.2)N--(CH.sub.2).sub.2 -- or (R.sup.2 R.sup.2)N--(CH.sub.2).sub.3 --,
• R.sup.2 is hydrogen or (R.sup.3 R.sup.3)N--(CH.sub.2).sub.2 -- or (R.sup.3 R.sup.3)N--(CH.sub.2).sub.3 --,
• R.sup.3 is hydrogen or (R.sup.4 R.sup.4)N--(CH.sub.2).sub.2 -- or (R.sup.4 R.sup.4)N-(CH.sub.2).sub.3 --,
• R.sup.4 is hydrogen or (R.sup.5 R.sup.5)--N--(CH.sub.2).sub.2 -- or (R.sup.5 R.sup.5)N--(CH.sub.2).sub.3 --,
• R.sup.5 is hydrogen or (R.sup.6 R.sup.6)N--(CH.sub.2).sub.2 -- or (R.sup.6 R.sup.6)N--(CH.sub.2).sub.3 --and
• R.sup.6 is hydrogen
• x is ##STR19## --(CH.sub.2).sub.n --, --(CH.sub.2).sub.3 --NR.sup.11 --(CH.sub.2).sub.3 --, --(CH.sub.2).sub.2 --NR.sup.11 --(CH.sub.2).sub.2 --, C.sub.2 -- to C.sub.20 -alkylene --(CH.sub.2).sub.1 --›O--(CH.sub.2).sub.k !.sub.m --O--(CH.sub.2).sub.1)--
• where Y is CR.sup.7 R.sup.9, oxygen, C.dbd.O or SO.sub.2, n is from 2 to 20, 1 and k are from 2 to 6, and m is from 1 to 40,
• R.sup.7,R.sup.8, R.sup.9 and R.sup.10 are hydrogen or C.sub.1 - to C.sub.6 -alkyl,
• R.sup.11 is C.sub.1 - to C.sub.20 -alkyl, C.sub.2 - to C.sub.20 -dialkylamino-C.sub.2 - to C.sub.10 -alkyl, C.sub.1 - to C.sub.10 -alkoxy-C.sub.2 - to C.sub.10 -alkyl, C.sub.2 - to C.sub.20 -hydroxyalkyl, C.sub.3 - to C.sub.12 -cycloalkyl, C.sub.4 - to C.sub.20 -cycloalkylalkyl, C.sub.2 - to C.sub.20 -alkenyl, C.sub.4 - to C.sub.30 -dialkylaminoalkenyl, C.sub.3 - to C.sub.30 -alkoxyalkenyl, C.sub.3 - to C.sub.20 -hydroxyalkenyl, C.sub.5 - to C.sub.20 -cycloalkylalkenyl, aryl or C.sub.7 - to C.sub.20 -aralkyl which is unsubstituted or monosubstituted to pentasubstituted by C.sub.1 - to C.sub.8 -alkyl, C.sub.2 - to C.sub.8 -dialkylamino, C.sub.1 - to C.sub.8 -alkoxy, hydroxyl, C.sub.3 - to C.sub.8 -cycloalkyl or C.sub.4 - to C.sub.12 -cycloalkylalkyl, or together are an alkylene chain which may be interrupted by nitrogen or oxygen, such as ethylene oxide, propylene oxide, butylene oxide or --CH.sub.2 --CH(CH.sub.3)--O-- or polyisobutylene having 1 to 100 isobutylene units.