One may view those generation sequences as quantized polymerization events.
The assembly of reactive monomers [44, 84], branch cells [9, 55, 56], or dendrons
[55, 85, 86] around atomic or molecular cores, to produce dendrimers according to
divergent or convergent dendritic branching principles, has been well demonstrated. Such systematic filling of molecular space around cores with branch cells
as a function of generational growth stages (branch-cell shells) – to give discrete,
quantized bundles of nanoscale mass – has been shown to be mathematically
predictable [10, 11, 26]. Predicted molecular weights have been confirmed by
mass spectrometry [87–90] and other analytical methods [9, 52, 91, 92]. Predicted
Scheme 3 Strategies for dendrimer synthesis [52]. Copyright: Cambridge University Press
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The assembly of reactive monomers [44, 84], branch cells [9, 55, 56], or dendrons
[55, 85, 86] around atomic or molecular cores, to produce dendrimers according to
divergent or convergent dendritic branching principles, has been well demonstrated. Such systematic filling of molecular space around cores with branch cells
as a function of generational growth stages (branch-cell shells) – to give discrete,
quantized bundles of nanoscale mass – has been shown to be mathematically
predictable [10, 11, 26]. Predicted molecular weights have been confirmed by
mass spectrometry [87–90] and other analytical methods [9, 52, 91, 92]. Predicted
Scheme 3 Strategies for dendrimer synthesis [52]. Copyright: Cambridge University Press
340
D.A. Tomalia