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Synthesis, Cellular Delivery and In vivo Application of Dendrimer-based pH Sensors
Published on: September 10, 2013
Functionally layered dendrimers: a new building block and its application to the synthesis of multichromophoric
William R Dichtel1, Stefan Hecht, Jean M J Fréchet
1Department of Chemistry, University of California-Berkeley, Berkeley, California 94720, USA.
Abstract:
[reaction: see text] A divergent synthesis of internally functionalized dendrimers based on a modular functional monomer has been developed. This strategy was applied to the construction of a light-harvesting dendrimer containing one set of naphthopyranone dyes located at the interior and another set of coumarin chromophores located in the adjacent outer layer surrounding a porphyrin acceptor. Quantitative energy transfer from both donor pigments is observed, giving rise to exclusive emission from the porphyrin core over all excitation wavelengths.
