Veronica R. Reichert, L. Mathias
Nov 1, 1994
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Macromolecules
Abstract
The goal of this and two succeeding papers was to investigate the effects of rigid tetrahedral cores (such as adamantane) on the properties of aramid and poly(phenylene) dendrimers as well as dendrimers that form single molecule micelles. This paper deals with model compound studies dealing with generating tetrasubstituted derivatives of adamantane. A previously reported procedure (for making tetraphenyladamantane) using tert-butyl bromide-AlCl 3 catalyzed arylation of 1-bromoadamantane was found not to be a general synthetic method for the preparation of other substituted adamantane derivatives. Adamantane derivatives with multiple phenyl substituents were isolated only when benzene and bromobenzene were used in the Friedel-Crafts reaction