Dendronization: a useful synthetic strategy to prepare multifunctional materials

JULIETA I. PAEZ; MARISA MARTINELLI; VERÓNICA BRUNETTI; MIRIAM C. STRUMIA

Polymers

Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute

Lugar: Basel; Año: 2012 vol. 4 p. 355 - 355

2073-4360

p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt;">Dendronization is a synthetic methodology that offers important advantages. The products which are obtained by means of it present new and specific properties and are called dendronized materials. This review shows numerous examples in which individual dendrons are used as building blocks to prepare more complex arrays via covalent or non covalent interactions. In particular, it points out how the structural information programmed into the dendritic architecture can be used to generate nanostructures with specific tailored properties (in the dendronization process). We emphasize the use of different dendrons, with diverse chemical structure and size, to functionalize different substrates like linear polymers, and plane and spherical inorganic surfaces. The review also demonstrates that self-assembly represents an ideal approach to create well-defined hyperbranched surfaces. The ability of b