Dendronización: a useful synthetic strategy to prepare multifunctional materials.

JULIETA PAEZ; MARISA MARTINELLI; VERÓNICA BRUNETTI; MIRIAM STRUMIA

Polymers

MDPI

Año: 2012 vol. 4 p. 355 - 355

2073-4360

b> Abstract: Dendronization is a synthetic methodology that offers important advantages. The resulting products, which are called dendronized materials, present new and specific properties. 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 in the dendronization process to generate nanostructures with specific tailored properties. We emphasize the use of different dendrons, with diverse chemical structure and size, to functionalize diverse substrates like linear polymers, and plane and curved inorganic surfaces. Apart fro