Anisotropic convergence of dendritic macromolecules facilitated by a heteroleptic metal–organic polyhedron scaffold

Abstract

Anisotropic dendrimers with bipolar shapes were systematically obtained using a heteroleptic metal–organic polyhedron (MOP) as a robust core scaffold. The structure of one of these polyhedral shapes was unambiguously determined by single-crystal X-ray analysis, which revealed that the bulky dendrons converge to both axial positions of the heteroleptic MOP core.