Dendronized Polymers: Recent Progress in Synthesis

✍ Scribed by Afang Zhang; Lijin Shu; Zhishan Bo; A. Dieter Schlüter

• Publisher: John Wiley and Sons
• Year: 2003
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 291 KB
• Volume: 204
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 1022-1352
• DOI: 10.1002/macp.200290086

✦ Synopsis

Abstract

This article divides the synthetic routes leading to dendronized polymers into two main categories (attach‐to and macromonomer) and compares their respective advantages and disadvantages. It gives a comprehensive overview on the kind of structures presently available and also spans the bridge between both polymers and molecular objects, decorated with only a few dendrons, and the structurally related, but less well defined polymers with hyperbranched side chains.

A coiled polymer backbone's stretching through the attachment of increasingly sterically demanding dendrons: a) no dendrons; b) dendrons of the first generation; c) second generation; d) third generation.

magnified imageA coiled polymer backbone's stretching through the attachment of increasingly sterically demanding dendrons: a) no dendrons; b) dendrons of the first generation; c) second generation; d) third generation.