Glycerol-based amphiphilic polyether mono azide third-generation dendrons were synthesized through a divergent strategy. A repetitive synthetic sequence of O-alkylation and isopropylidene deprotection reaction was adopted for the synthesis, pentamethylene was used as spacer. Dansyl chloride was attached to the focal point as a fluorophore. The photophysical property in aqueous solution of the protected dendrons showed self-association behaviour from second generation onwards even at a very low concentration (1 ϫ 10A hypsochromic shift of around 60 nm in the emission maximum, significant increase in fluorescence intensity, almost ten-fold increase in the fluorescence anisotropy and a fourfold increase in average fluorescence lifetime of dansyl moi-