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Set of constitutional repeating units separated from the free valence of a dendron by the same number of constitutional repeating units.
Note: Generations are numbered consecutively starting from the constitutional repeating unit bearing the free valence.
Example of a four-generation dendron, highlighting constitutional repeating units of generations 1 to 4 and the end-groups. The preferred constitutional repeating unit is chosen such that the branch points are at its end in the dendron direction.
Source:
PAC, 2019, 91, 523. 'Nomenclature and terminology for dendrimers with regular dendrons and for hyperbranched polymers (IUPAC Recommendations 2017)' on page 530 (https://doi.org/10.1515/pac-2016-1217)
PAC, 2019, 91, 523. 'Nomenclature and terminology for dendrimers with regular dendrons and for hyperbranched polymers (IUPAC Recommendations 2017)' on page 530 (https://doi.org/10.1515/pac-2016-1217)