Dendronization: an useful synthetic strategy to obtain multihyperfunctional and hyperbranched materials

JULIETA PAEZ; MARISA MARTINELLI; VERONICA BRUNETTI; MIRIAM C. STRUMIA

Polymers

MDPI Sucursal de Beijing

Año: 2012

2073-4360

font face="TimesNewRoman"> 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 from this, the review also demonstrates that