Double exponential dendrimer growth

Figure 5.12. Moore et al. s1105 scheme for double exponential dendrimer growth .

Moore et al.[104 106a reported a double exponential dendrimer growth , which is an accelerated convergent process for the synthesis of monodendrons by means of a bidirectional procedure, where the degree of polymerization follows Equation (5.1). 

Figure 12-6 Chemical structures of a starting monomer 12 and the corresponding trimer 13 and 15-mer 14 that have been prepared by double exponential dendrimer growth (DEDG).

Scheme 12-4 Double exponential growth scheme for phenylacetylene dendrimers. Aj Bp are protected versions of the functional groups A, B.

Balaji, B.S. and Lewis, M.R. (2009) Double exponential growth of aliphatic polyamide dendrimers via AB(2) hypermonomer strategy. Chem. Commun., 4593-4595. 

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