Bridging the generation gap: Building up molecules of considerable molecular weight in a step-by-step manner from small units generally consumes energy and produces a lot of waste. This is not the case here since only three steps are necessary to built a dendrimer of generation 3 (MW around 265 000), bearing 750 phosphanyl end groups, with the production of environmentally friendly byproducts: water and dinitrogen. The scheme shows the two-step formation of a generation 2 (G2) dendrimer from components AB5 and CD5.
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