Chitosan is a polysaccharide composed mainly of β-(1-4)-2-amino-2-deoxy-D-glucopyranose repeating units. Chitosan shows interesting biological properties such as immunological, 1 antibacterial, 2,3 and wound healing activity. 4 Moreover, it is a nontoxic 3 and biodegradable polymer, 5 and the free amino groups of chitosan offer great potential for further derivatization. Alternatively, dendrimers also offer several possibilities in molecular design owing to their multifunctional attachment sites. They have been used to scaffold neoglycoconjugates, 6 probes, catalysts, and so on. 7 Herein we report the preparation of sialic acid bound dendronized 8 chitosandendrimer hybrids. These molecules may have the potential to inhibit the hemagglutination of human erythrocytes by influenza virus hemagglutinin as recently observed with straight polymers and hyperbranched polymers. 6 As polymer backbones used so far are highly toxic, it is expected that scaffolding poly-(amidoamine) (PAMAM) dendrimer onto nontoxic chitosan core would present biopharmaceutical advantage.To build up the desired long spacer necessary to allow multiple branch construction, commercial tetraethylene glycol 1 was modified into aminoacetal 6 in five steps (Scheme 1). Monotosylate 2 was prepared from 1 in only 40% yield (TsCl, 1.0 equiv, Et 3 N, CH 2 Cl 2 ) owing to the simultaneous formation of undesired ditosylate. According to a published procedure, 9,10 oxidation (DMSO, P 2 O 5 , CH 2 Cl 2 ) and acetal formation (HOCH 2 CH 2 OH, pTsOH, PhH) were performed in good yields (3, 92%; 4, 89%). After azide displacement and reduction [(i) NaN 3 , EtOH; (ii) H 2 , 10% Pd-C, EtOH], 11 amine 6 was obtained in 23% overall yield from 1. Using 6 as an amine source, poly(amidoamine) (PAMAM) dendrimers were prepared according to Tomalia et al. 12 by repeating cycle of methyl acrylate and ethylenediamine treatment. The methyl esters of each dendrimers 7a-c (G ) 0.5, 1.5, 2.5) were purified by silica gel column chromatography (CH 2 Cl 2 / MeOH ) 10/1) which were obtained in moderate to good yields (7a, G ) 0.5, 70%; 7b, G ) 1.5, 73%; 7c, G ) 2.5, 57%). The terminal amines of each generation (G ) 1, G ) 2, and G ) 3, 8a-c) were obtained from each methyl esters quantitatively by treatment with excess ethylenediamine at room temperature for 3 days.The sialic acid residues were initially attached onto each dendrimer by reductive N-alkylation with known p-formylphenyl R-sialoside 9 13 using NaCNBH 3 in methanol (Scheme 2). 14 Since 3 equiv of aldehyde 9 was used