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Multinanometer long phenylacetylene-end-capped poly(triacetylene) (PTA) oligomers with dendritic side chains of generation one to three have been prepared; UV–VIS measurements indicate that there is no loss of π-electron conjugation along the PTA backbone in the higher generation compounds despite distortion from planarity due to the bulky dendritic wedges.
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Schenning et al. (1998) studied this question.
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