Conjugated metallopolymers

Conjugated polymers incorporating transition metals have enormous potential for chemically-tuneable conducting and semiconducting polymers. Unfortunately, progress in this field has been limited by the challenge of preparing suitable metal-containing monomers, the difficulty of polymerizing them in a controlled manner, and the limited solubility of the resulting polymers. We are developing new, soluble conjugated metal-containing polymers that contain transition metals in a conjugated organic backbone.