Organic letters

Design of branched and chiral solvatochromic probes: Toward quantifying polarity gradients in dendritic macromolecules

P Milosevic, S Hecht

Index: Milosevic, Petar; Hecht, Stefan Organic Letters, 2005 , vol. 7, # 22 p. 5023 - 5026

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Abstract

A pair of chiral, branched monomer building blocks, consisting of a solvatochromic probe and a spectroscopically inactive volume dummy, has been developed. The probe can selectively be excited, and its fluorescence characteristics provide information about local polarity. Incorporation of these monomers into high-generation polyester dendrimers should enable a detailed investigation of the polarity/density profile in dendritic architectures and ...