Two series of hyperbranched copolymers based on perfluorinated germanium hydrides of various topological structures are studied in dilute chloroform solutions by the methods of molecular hydrodynamics and optics. The first series is composed of copolymers with various molecular masses (from 2.3 × 10 4 to 31 × 10 4 ) that contain rigid linear chains between branching points and various amounts of branching points in cascades of the dendritic fragment, while the second series is comprised of copolymers that, at close branch ing degrees, on average, are characterized by a looser structure owing to a large amount of linear units at the periphery of macromolecules with M = (2.5 × 10 4 )-(23 × 10 4 ). Macromolecules of the studied polymers have compact dimensions and a high density of the polymer substance; their shape asymmetry is low. In terms of these characteristics, they approach dendrimers. At a fixed molecular mass, the copolymers with a loose structure have higher dimensions of macromolecules and higher intrinsic viscosities.
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