Frontiers in Transition Metal-Containing Polymers

Alaa S. Abd-El-Aziz is currently the Associate Vice-President (Academic & Research) at the University of British Columbia Okanagan, Canada. Alaa was appointed as an assistant professor in the Department of Chemistry at The University of Winnipeg in 1990. He moved to the rank of full professor in 1997, the same year he was named a Fellow of the Chemical Institute of Canada. He's been the recipient of a number of awards, including the Manitoba Outstanding Chemist Award, the Erica and Arnold Rogers Award for Excellence in Research and Scholarship, and the Clifford J. Robson Memorial Award for Excellence in Teaching. Ian Manners is a Professor and Chair of Inorganic, Macromolecular, and Materials Chemistry and Marie Curie Chair in the School of Chemistry at the University of Bristol, in the UK. Ian was a Canada Research Chair in Inorganic, Polymer, and Materials Chemistry at the Department of Chemistry, University of Toronto, Canada, until 2005. He has received a range of awards, including a Corday-Morgan Medal and the Main Group Chemistry Award from the UK, an Alfred P. Sloan Fellowship from the USA, the Macromolecular Science and Engineering Award, the Alcan Lecture Award, and the Steacie Prize in Canada. Ian was elected as Fellow to the Royal Society of Canada (the Canadian National Academy of Science) in 2001.

Contributors. Chapter 1. Organometallic Polymers. The Early Days (Charles U. Pittman, and Charles E. Carraher). Chapter 2. Recent Developments in Organometallic Polymers (Alaa S. Abd-El-Aziz and Patrick O. Shipman). Chapter 3. Block Copolymers with Transition Metals in the Main Chain (David A. Rider and Ian Manners). Chapter 4. Metal Containing Conjugated Polymers (Mark J. MacLachlan). Chapter 5. Metal Coordination Polymers for Nanofabrication (Wai Kin Chan, and Kai Wing Cheng). Chapter 6. Rigid-Rod Polymetallaynes (Wai-Yeung Wong and Cheuk-Lam Ho). Chapter 7. Polymers with Metal-Metal Bonds along Their Backbones (David Tyler). Chapter 8. Structures and Properties of 1-D Transition Metal-Containing Coordination/Organometallic Polymers and Oligomers Built Upon Assembling Diphosphine and Diisocyanide Ligands (Pierre D. Harvey). Chapter 9. Redox-based functionalities of multi-nuclear metal complex systems (Hiroshi Nishihara). Chapter 10. Metallodendrimers and Their Potential Utilitarian Applications (Seok-Ho Hwang and George R. Newkome). Chapter 11. Metallodendritic Iron Complexes: Design, Catalysis and Molecular Recognition (Didier Astruc). Chapter 12. Polypeptide-Based Metallobiopolymers (Khaled A. Mahmoud and Heinz-Bernhard Kraatz). Chapter 13. Supramolecular Metal Arrays on Artificial Metallo-DNAs and Peptides. (Mitsuhiko Shionoya). Subject Index. Metals Index.