A simple ‘one pot’ route to the hyperbranched analogues of Tomalia’s poly(amidoamine) dendrimers

Abstract

Melt polymerisation of N-acryloyl-1,2-diaminoethane hydrochloride gives the hyperbranched hydrochloride salt analogues of Tomalia’s poly(amidoamine) dendrimers, for which spectroscopic analysis establishes a branching ratio close to one.

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