Self-assembled oligonucleotide-polyester dendrimersElectronic supplementary information (ESI) available: experimental section and MALDI-TOF MS. See http://www.rsc.org/suppdata/cc/b2/b209029e/

A new approach to the controlled synthesis of multicomponent dendrimers is presented, in which three oligonucleotide-dendron conjugates were synthesized using solid phase techniques and hybridized to create a second generation polyester dendrimer with DNA as a core and bearing two types of peripheral functional groups.