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JOURNAL OF PHYSICAL CHEMISTRY B
Volume 115, Issue 16, Pages 4613-4620Publisher
AMER CHEMICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1021/jp112390d
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- NIGMS NIH HHS [R01 GM062444] Funding Source: Medline
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Dendrimers are attractive templates to display functional molecular components. Since the behavior of dendrimers systems can depend greatly on the accessibility of these molecular components to the external environment, and on the spatial arrangement of functional groups attached to the dendrimer terminal branches (end-groups), techniques to determine the locations of end-groups are highly desirable. In this report, we describe a method to analyze the EPR spectra of multiple generations of poly (amidoamine) (PAMAM) dendrimers which have spin-labels attached to end-groups in variable percentage of the total number of available sites. The spectra are treated as a convolution of a narrow spin-label spectrum and a variable line broadening function. Trends in the parameters that describe the best-fit line broadening function with spin-label loading reveal the spatial arrangements and homogeneity of spin environments of the labels. We observe a shift in the end-group distribution from generation 2 (G(3)) to G(4) dendrimers that indicates a change in morphology from an open, extended structure to a more dense, compact arrangements.
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