It has long been a dream of chemists to carry out the important chemical reactions of living organisms in the laboratory or as practical technology.
Molecules continuously recognize and affect one another through chemical and physical interactions.
For example, water molecules behave like a gigantic molecule by forming numerous hydrogen bonds. That water boils at 100 is not an intrinsic nature of a single water molecule, but is a characteristic of such a gigantic aggregate. Because molecular interactions involve many different forces, certain important reactions such as electron transfer and energy migration occur. Understanding and utilizing this fact was an important step to realizing the dream of Ciamician. In the mid 1980s non-linear hyperbranched macromolecules were first synthesized.