Dendrimers: From design to application - A progress report

Angewandte Chemie - International Edition

Volumn 38, Issue 7, 1999, Pages 884-905

  Fischer, Marco ^a   Vogtle, Fritz ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BONN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Chirality; Dendrimers; Nanostructures; Supramolecular chemistry

Indexed keywords

CARBOHYDRATE; DENDRIMER; POLYMER; PORPHYRIN;

CHEMICAL ANALYSIS; CHEMICAL STRUCTURE; CHIRALITY; CRYSTAL STRUCTURE; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; ELECTRICITY; GENE THERAPY; ISOMER; LIPOPHILICITY; MOLECULAR INTERACTION; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; OXIDATION REDUCTION REACTION; REVIEW; STRUCTURE ANALYSIS; SURFACE PROPERTY; SYNTHESIS; THERMODYNAMICS;

EID: 0033119135     PISSN: 14337851     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1521-3773(19990401)38:7<884::AID-ANIE884>3.0.CO;2-K     Document Type: Review

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