Interfacial Regions Governing Internal Cavities of Dendrimers. Studies of Poly(alkyl aryl ether) Dendrimers Constituted with Linkers of Varying Alkyl Chain Length

Natarajan, Baskar and Gupta, Shipra and Ramamurthy, Vaidhyanathan and Jayaraman, Narayanaswamy (2011) Interfacial Regions Governing Internal Cavities of Dendrimers. Studies of Poly(alkyl aryl ether) Dendrimers Constituted with Linkers of Varying Alkyl Chain Length. In: Journal of Organic Chemistry, 76 (10). pp. 4018-4026.

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Abstract

This report deals with a study of the properties of internal cavities of dendritic macromolecules that are capable Of encapsulating and mediating photoreactions of guest molecules. The internal cavity structures of dendrimers are determined by the interfacial regions between the aqueous exterior and hydrocarbon like interior constituted by the linkers that connect symmetrically sited branch points constituting the dendrimer and head groups that cap the dendrimers. Phloroglucinol-based poly(alkyl aryl ether) dendrimers constituted with a homologous series of alkyl linkers were undertaken for the current study. Twelve dendrimers within first, second, and third generations, having ethyl, n-propyl, n-butyl, and n-pentyl groups as the linkers and hydroxyl groups at peripheries in each generation, were synthesized. Encapsulation of pyrene and coumarins by aqueous basic solutions of dendrimers were monitored-by UV-vis and fluorescence spectroscopies, which showed that a lower generation dendrimer with an optimal alkyl linker presented better encapsulation abilities than a higher generation dendrimer. Norrish type I photoreaction of dibenzyl ketone was carried out within the above: series of dendrimers to probe their abilities to hold guests and reactive inthermediate radical pairs within themselves. The extent of cage effect from the series of third generation dendrimers was observed to be higher with dendrimers having an n-pentyl group as the linker.

Item Type:	Journal Article
Publication:	Journal of Organic Chemistry
Publisher:	American Chemical Society
Additional Information:	Copyright of this article belongs to American Chemical Society.
Department/Centre:	Division of Chemical Sciences > Organic Chemistry
Date Deposited:	30 May 2011 05:50
Last Modified:	21 Oct 2011 08:17
URI:	http://eprints.iisc.ac.in/id/eprint/38043

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