Robust gels created using a self-assembly and covalent capture strategy.

Chem Commun (Camb)

Department of Chemistry, University of York, Heslington, York, UK YO10 5DD.

Published: December 2005

The self-assembly of dendritic building blocks containing multiple terminal alkenes on their surfaces yields soft gel-phase materials--subsequent Grubbs' metathesis leads to covalent cross-linking between the alkenes and the formation of robust swellable gels.

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