Strategies towards the synthesis of well-defined, mechanically interlocked, dendritic assemblies of rotaxanes are developed, one using a divergent, and the other a convergent approach. For the first time covalent bonds are not directly involved in the branching of dendrimers, only mechanical bonds act as unique branching elements.
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Osswald et al. (2001) studied this question.