Smitha George

• Ph.D in Chemistry
• Professor (Assistant) at Fatima Mata National College, Kollam, India

Three novel multifunctional polyether grafted dendritic solid supports for organic synthesis were developed via single step, grafting from and hypergrafting strategies. In order to improve both the swelling capacity and loading capacity of conventional resins simultaneously, the hybrid supports were developed by grafting either multivalent linear p...

The palladium complex of dendronized amine polymer (EG–Gn–Pd, n = 0, 1 and 2) having ethylene glycol‐initiated polyepichlorohydrin as core was synthesized on a Merrifield resin support and was well characterized. Generally, palladium catalysts are known for carbon–carbon coupling reactions. Here, a developed catalyst was found to be good for benzox...

Dendritic architectures with neutral core and amino groups in the periphery pose a synthetic challenge. The present work describes the synthesis of a new class of homogeneous dendritic polyamine with three-directional glycerol initiated polymeric core having a large number of amino groups by following the divergent strategy and were characterized....

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Heterogeneous base catalyst and chiral catalyst have been synthesized using Merrifield resin as support and characterized. The catalytic activity of base catalyst and chiral catalyst was studied for Henry reaction and asymmetric aldol reaction respectively. The catalysts were found to be good and the products were obtained in reasonable yield

Merrifield resin supported dendronized polymer and its copper complex having ethylene glycol initiated polyepichlorohydrin as core (EG-Gn-Cu, n = 0,1,2) have been synthesized for the first time and characterized. They were found to be highly selective heterogeneous catalysts for the synthesis of tetra-substituted imidazole derivatives under mild re...

Synthesis of Dendrigraft amidoamine polymer having glycerol initiated polyepichlorohydrin as core has been demonstrated on a Merrifield resin support to achieve the heterogeneous nature for catalytic applications. In earlier studies of supported dendritic systems, no effort was initiated to synthesize a dendritic polymer having high functionality i...

The synthesis of multi-arm star dendrigraft amidoamine polymer with pentaerythritol initiated polyepichlorohydrin as the core, PEN-G(2), on a solid resin support has been demonstrated. We have functionalized a Merrifield resin support with polyepichlorohydrin, and dendrons are grown on it up to second generation using a "graft from" approach. The e...