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One of the intensively developed tools for cancer therapy is drug-releasing matrices. Polyamidoamine dendrimers (PAMAM) are commonly used as nanoparticles to increase the solubility, stability and retention of drugs in the human body. Most often, drugs are encapsulated in PAMAM cavities or covalently attached to their surface.

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Dendritic polymer prodrug-based unimolecular micelles for pH-responsive co-delivery of doxorubicin and camptothecin with synergistic controlled drug release effect.

Colloids Surf B Biointerfaces

June 2024

State Key Laboratory of Applied Organic Chemistry, College of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Lanzhou University, Lanzhou 730000, China. Electronic address:

Combination chemotherapy has been recognized as a more powerful strategy for tumor treatment rather than the single chemotherapy. However, the interactive mechanism of the two hydrophobic chemotherapeutic drugs has not been explored by now. Aiming for a better synergistic effect, such interactive mechanism was investigated in the present work, by designing CPT@DOX-DPU-PEG nanomedicine with encapsulated camptothecin (CPT) and conjugated doxorubicin (DOX).

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Fluorescent dendrimers have wide applications in biomedical and materials science. Here, we report the synthesis of fluorescent polyurethane homodendrimers and Janus dendrimers, which often pose challenges due to the inherent reactivity of isocyanates. Polyurethane dendrons (G1-G3) were synthesized via a convergent method using a one-pot multicomponent Curtius reaction as a crucial step to establish urethane linkages.

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Protecting group free one-pot multicomponent Curtius reaction afforded a versatile MN type dendron, ensuring late-stage modification of both dendron and dendrimer to afford highly fluorescent symmetrical and unsymmetrical (Janus) polyurethane dendrimers. Fluorescence study of these dendrimers exhibited the Förster resonance energy transfer (FRET) between blue and mint green fluorophores.

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A Model for Late-Stage Modification of Polyurethane Dendrimers Using Thiol-Ene Click Chemistry.

ACS Omega

May 2021

Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, Miami University, 501 E High Street, Oxford, Ohio 45056, United States.

Dendritic materials possessing urethane linkage are surprisingly more stable than similar structures having functional groups such as ether, ester, amide, or carbosilane. This generates profound interest in dendritic polyurethanes. Construction of a well-defined polyurethane dendrimer is, however, challenging because of isocyanates' high reactivity.

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