TY  - JOUR
A1  - Wessig, Pablo
A1  - Budach, Dennis B.
A1  - Thünemann, Andreas F.
T1  - Dendrimers with Oligospiroketal (OSK) Building Blocks: Synthesis and Properties
JF  - Chemistry - a European journal
N2  - The development of novel dendrimers containing oligospiroketal (OSK) rods as building blocks is described. The linkage between the core unit (CU), branching units (BU), and OSK rods relies on the CuAAC reaction between terminal alkynes and azides. Two different strategies of dendrimer synthesis were investigated and it was found that the convergent approach is clearly superior to the divergent one. SAXS measurements and MD simulations indicate that the obtained dendrimer features a globular structure with very low density. Obviously, the OSK rods stabilize a rather loose mass-fractal structure.
KW  - click chemistry
KW  - dendrimers
KW  - molecular rods
KW  - oxygen heterocycles
KW  - SAXS
Y1  - 2015
U6  - https://doi.org/10.1002/chem.201501386
SN  - 0947-6539
SN  - 1521-3765
VL  - 21
IS  - 29
SP  - 10466
EP  - 10471
PB  - Wiley-VCH
CY  - Weinheim
ER  -