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CHEMICAL SOCIETY REVIEWS
Volume 38, Issue 2, Pages 352-362Publisher
ROYAL SOC CHEMISTRY
DOI: 10.1039/b711745k
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- National Science Foundation through the UCSB Materials Research Laboratory [DMR-0520415, CHE-0514031]
- Swedish Centre for Biomimetic Fibre Engineering
- BioMime
- Swedish Research Council [2006-3617]
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Dendritic polymers are highly branched polymer structures, with complex, secondary architectures and well-defined spatial location of functional groups. Due to their unique physical and chemical features, applications in areas such as targeted drug-delivery, macromolecular carriers, catalysis, sensors, light harvesting, surface engineering and biomimetic materials have been proposed. However, only a few dendritic materials have been exploited commercially due to time consuming syntheses and the generation of significant waste/presence of unreacted starting materials. This tutorial review describes traditional synthesis of dendritic materials as well as recent advances in synthetic strategies, for example the use of Click chemistry, as a tool to efficiently obtain complex, functional dendritic structures.
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