10.1071/CH15102_AC ©CSIRO 2015 Australian Journal of Chemistry 2015, 68 (12), 1918-1925 Supplementary Material The Cooperative Effect in Dendronized Chitosan Microbeads Ana Agustina Aldana,A Miriam C. Strumia,A and Marisa Martinelli A,B A Instituto Multidisciplinario de Biologı́a Vegetal (IMBIV), CONICET, Departamento de Quı́mica Orgánica, Facultad de Ciencias Quı́micas, Universidad Nacional de B Córdoba, Haya de la Torre y Medina Allende, X5000HUA, Córdoba, Argentina. Corresponding author. Email: mmartinelli@fcq.unc.edu.ar Figure S1. Synthetic route of dendronized microbeads O O O Cl 45°C, 2h O ECH O BDGE O O Ch-ECH Ch-BDGE O O O O OO O OO O O O O O O NH O NH2 BA O O O OO HN O O BB NH2 0.2M Na2CO3 60°C, 36h Ch-ECH-BA Ch-BDGE-BA Ch-ECH-BAh Ch-BDGE-BAh Ch-ECH-BB Ch-BDGE-BB HCOOH 85% 60°C, 4 days Ch-ECH-BBh Ch-BDGE-BBh Figure S2. Structures of dendronized chitosan microbeads R = t-But; Ch-BDGE-BA R = H; Ch-BDGE-BAh R = t-But; Ch-BDGE-BB R = H; Ch-BDGE-BBh R = t-But; Ch-ECH-BA R = H; Ch-ECH-BAh R = t-But; Ch-ECH-BB R = H; Ch-ECH-BBh Figure S3. FTIR spectrum of BA. Figure S4. (a) DR-FTIR spectrum of Ch-BDGE-BB and copper sobbed ChBDGE-BB. (b) 1H-NMR spectrum of BA (b-1) and BA-Cu (b-2). a) b)