Dendronized polymers:: Recent progress in synthesis

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.