Chemical Communications 2007-06-14

A chemoselective approach for the accelerated synthesis of well-defined dendritic architectures.

Per Antoni, Daniel Nyström, Craig J Hawker, Anders Hult, Michael Malkoch

Index: Chem. Commun. (Camb.) , 2249, (2007)

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Abstract

A chemoselective and layered growth approach has been developed for the synthesis of dendrimers, combining Click chemistry with traditional esterification/etherification reactions, without the need for activation steps and with excellent overall yields.