Convergent dendrons and dendrimers: from synthesis to applications

SM Grayson, JMJ Fréchet - Chemical reviews, 2001 - ACS Publications
Dendrimers represent a key stage in the ongoing evolution of macromolecular chemistry.
From the origins of polymer chemistry until 20 years ago, a major focus had been the …

Coumarins in polymers: from light harvesting to photo-cross-linkable tissue scaffolds

SR Trenor, AR Shultz, BJ Love, TE Long - Chemical reviews, 2004 - ACS Publications
The use of polymer photoreactions dates back some 4000 years to when ancient Egyptians
and Babylonians used sunlight to photo-cross-link linens during mummification and to …

Nano-formulations of drugs: recent developments, impact and challenges

J Jeevanandam, Y San Chan, MK Danquah - Biochimie, 2016 - Elsevier
Nano-formulations of medicinal drugs have attracted the interest of many researchers for
drug delivery applications. These nano-formulations enhance the properties of conventional …

Simplifying the synthesis of dendrimers: accelerated approaches

MV Walter, M Malkoch - Chemical Society Reviews, 2012 - pubs.rsc.org
Dendrimers are highly branched and monodisperse macromolecules that display an exact
and large number of functional groups distributed with unprecedented control on the …

Light-harvesting dendrimers

A Adronov, JMJ Fréchet - Chemical Communications, 2000 - pubs.rsc.org
Natural photosynthetic systems collect sunlight using a vast array of light-harvesting
chromophores that channel the absorbed energy to a single reaction center. Recently, it has …

Light harvesting and energy transfer in laser− dye-labeled poly (aryl ether) dendrimers

A Adronov, SL Gilat, JMJ Frechet, K Ohta… - Journal of the …, 2000 - ACS Publications
The photophysical properties of a series of laser− dye-labeled poly (aryl ether) dendrimers,
generations 1− 4, have been determined. The dendrimers act as extremely efficient light …

Combining Orthogonal Chain‐End Deprotections and Thiol–Maleimide Michael Coupling: Engineering Discrete Oligomers by an Iterative Growth Strategy

Z Huang, J Zhao, Z Wang, F Meng… - Angewandte Chemie …, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
Orthogonal maleimide and thiol deprotections were combined with thiol–maleimide coupling
to synthesize discrete oligomers/macromolecules on a gram scale with molecular weights …

Dendrimers and dyes—a review

PE Froehling - Dyes and pigments, 2001 - Elsevier
Dendrimers are a class of macromolecules characterized by a highly branched structure of
great regularity, a compact shape, a large number of (reactive) end groups, and room …

Polyphenylene dendrimers with different fluorescent chromophores asymmetrically distributed at the periphery

T Weil, UM Wiesler, A Herrmann, R Bauer… - Journal of the …, 2001 - ACS Publications
A new synthetic approach leading to asymmetrically substituted polyphenylene dendrimers
is presented. Following this method, polyphenylene dendrimers decorated with an …

A quadruply hydrogen bonded heterocomplex displaying high-fidelity recognition

T Park, EM Todd, S Nakashima… - Journal of the American …, 2005 - ACS Publications
An exceptionally strong quadruply hydrogen-bonded complex is formed between 2, 7-
diamido-1, 8-naphthyridine 3 (DAN) and the butylurea of guanosine 6 (UG) in chloroform …