A Tandem Approach to Graft and Dendritic Graft Copolymers Based on "Living" Free Radical Polymerizations

Angewandte Chemie (International Edition in English)

Volumn 36, Issue 3, 1997, Pages 270-272

  Grubbs, Robert B ^b   Hawker, Craig J ^a   Dao, Julian ^a   Fréchet, Jean M J ^b  

^a IBM ALMADEN RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Dendrimers; Polymers; Radical reactions

Indexed keywords

EID: 0030903292     PISSN: 05700833     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/anie.199702701     Document Type: Article

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