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MACROMOLECULES
Volume 47, Issue 15, Pages 4894-4900Publisher
AMER CHEMICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1021/ma501418r
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- National Science Foundation [CHE 1214109]
- Division Of Chemistry
- Direct For Mathematical & Physical Scien [1214109] Funding Source: National Science Foundation
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A kinetically selective thiol-Michael addition click reaction was employed for facile and efficient synthesis of dendrimers as a first example of using solely a single chemistry without protection/deprotection reactions in dendrimer synthesis. First, a wide range of thiols and vinyls were assessed for their reaction selectivity, and several combinations demonstrated superior selectivity. This result led to a design of new monomers A*A(2) (vinyl) and B*B-2 (thiol) that both have three functional groups with one much more reactive and two much less reactive moieties. Starting from a multifunctional core thiol, a fifth-generation dendrimer with 96 peripheral functional groups was synthesized in less than a half day by sequentially reacting A*A(2) and B*B-2 monomers all under thiol Michael addition reaction conditions. Furthermore, a one-pot dendritic linear polymer conjugation was demonstrated by a convergent synthesis approach starting from an alkyne-terminated dendron synthesis that was subsequently coupled with azide-terminated poly(ethylene glycol), all in one pot with just a single, final purification step needed for the entire procedure. The results herein will provide a new, robust, and efficient methodology for synthesis of dendrimers as well as other complex polymer architectures such as dendritic linear polymer conjugates, heterofunctional dendrimers, and dendronized surfaces.
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