Part I. DNA Base and Base Analogue Pairing in Organic Solvents. Part II. Ring Closing Metathesis of Poly-Allylated Glycerol Dendrimers

217 p.Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 2006.Part II details cross linking of glycerol dendrimers using the ring closing metathesis (RCM) reaction. An iteratively cross-linked dendrimer was prepared by RCM of an allylated G-3.5 cross-linked dendrimer and the methodology developed for perfect dendrimers was subsequently applied to hyperbranched polyglycerols. Cross-linked dendrimers displayed phase transfer properties and may be useful in therapeutic and nanotechnological applications.U of I OnlyRestricted to the U of I community idenfinitely during batch ingest of legacy ETD