Dendronized Polymers: Recent Progress in Synthesis

This article divides the synthetic routes leading to dendronized polymers into two main categories (attach‐to and macromonomer) and compares their respective advantages and disadvantages. It gives a comprehensive overview on the kind of structures presently available and also spans the bridge between both polymers and molecular objects, decorated with only a few dendrons, and the structurally related, but less well defined polymers with hyperbranched side chains. A coiled polymer backbone's stretching through the attachment of increasingly sterically demanding dendrons: a) no dendrons; b) dendrons of the first generation; c) second generation; d) third generation. magnified image A coiled polymer backbone's stretching through the attachment of increasingly sterically demanding dendrons: a) no dendrons; b) dendrons of the first generation; c) second generation; d) third generation.