Shu, L.; Schlüter, A.D.; Ecker, C.; Severin, N.; Rabe, J.
P.
"Extremely long dendronized polymers: Synthesis, quantification
of structure perfection, individualization, and SFM manipulation" Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. Engl.2001,
113, 4666-4669
Keywords
Dendrimers, polymerization, scanning force microscopy
Abstract
Up to 250 nm long polystyrene chains with fourth generation dendrons
at each repeat unit were synthesized, individualized on HOPG and manipulated
into a stretched linear conformation by the SFM tip.