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In recent years, dendrimers — a new class of engineered macromolecules — have attracted the interest of many research groups in chemistry and physics. The molecules are imitating on a nanometer scale a branching pattern present in nature on a macroscopic scale. They consist of repeat units, e.g. phenylacetylene molecules, arranged in a self-similar manner around a core. Two approaches for synthesizing dendrimers have been reported. One is the so called divergent approach, developed independently by Vögtle and Tomalia [1,2], where the dendrimer is built up divergently — generation by generation — from the core to the periphery. The other route due to Hawker and Fréchet is called the convergent approach [3]. In the first step of this process the different branches are synthesized and in the last step they are connected with the core molecule.
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Reineker, P., Engelmann, A., Yudson, V.I. (2003). Optical Properties and Energy Transport in Dendrimers. In: Charra, F., Agranovich, V.M., Kajzar, F. (eds) Organic Nanophotonics. NATO Science Series, vol 100. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-010-0103-8_3
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