Organic letters

Convergent synthesis of dendrimers via the Passerini three-component reaction

JA Jee, LA Spagnuolo, JG Rudick

Index: Jee, Jo-Ann; Spagnuolo, Lauren A.; Rudick, Jonathan G. Organic Letters, 2012 , vol. 14, # 13 p. 3292 - 3295

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Abstract

Tuning properties by programming the surface functional group composition of surface-block dendrimers has been limited to dendrimers with only two types of surface functionality (ie, surface-diblock dendrimers). The Passerini reaction provides dendrimer products from precursor dendrons in reasonable yields. This proof-of-principle experiment opens the door to making surface-triblock dendrimers.