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This perspective presents the state-of-the-art techniques to synthesize highly branched polymers such as dendrimers and hyperbranched polymers with well-defined linear chains between branch points. These highly branched polymers are essentially the long-chain analogues of conventional dendrimers and hyperbranched polymers and have been given many names, including dendrimer-like, DendriMac, HyperMac, etc. We cover the various synthetic strategies: the direction of synthesis (i.e., core outward or periphery inward) and the building of hyperbranched polymer either through iterative chain growth/branching reactions or from well-defined and reactive building blocks. The first section of this paper focuses on the iterative chain growth/branching reactions. These reactions have been used to create long-chain analogues of dendrimers. The second section highlights the modular synthesis of long-chain …