An approach to highly functionalized dendrimers from chiral, non-racemic synthetic monomers

Article abstract of DOI:10.1016/0040-4039(96)01295-6

An approach to dendrimers with highly functional interiors constructed from chiral, non-racemic hydrobenzoin monomer units is presented. An optically pure monomer unit is prepared using asymmetric dihydroxylation (AD) and a representative dendrimer is constructed by a convergent growth strategy.