Electronic Properties of Polymers and Related Compounds

I Introduction.- Conductive Polymers.- Applications of Electrically Conducting Polymers.- Structural Background of Conductivity in Polymers; Results from X-Ray, Neutron and EM Investigations..- II Structure and Conductivity of Polyacetylene.- Structural Features of Pure and Doped Polyacetylene: (CH)x.- In-Situ Diffraction on Doping Reactions.- Local Structure in Halogen-Doped Polyacetylene from X-Ray Absorption Spectroscopy..- Recent Developments in Precursor Routes to Polyacetylene.- Electronic Properties of Polyacetylene Prepared by the Durham Route.- Intrinsic Anisotropic Properties of trans-(CH)x.- Frequency-Dependent Electronic Processes in Crystalline trans-(CH)x.- Non-Solitonic Transport Model for Polyacetylene.- Structure of K-Doped Polyacetylene and Its Variations with Annealing, Studied by Neutron Diffraction..- Reflectivity and Magnetoreflectivity of Iodine-Doped Polyacetylene.- III Theory and Optical Excitations.- Theoretical Description of Polyacetylene: Intrinsic Defect Sturctures, Extrinsic Disorder and Electronic Correlation..- Photomodulation of Soliton Defects in Polyacetylene.- Time-Dependent Photoconductivity of Polyacetylene and ?-Carotene.- High Resolution Spectroscopy of Polyacetylene Oligomers: Linear Polyenes with 3 Through 7 Double Bonds.- Electronic Sturcture of the Insulating Forms of Polyaniline.- IV Raman and Infrared Spectroscopy.- The Dispersion Effect of Resonance Raman Lines in trans-Polyacetylene.- Vibrational Properties of Doped Conjugated Polymers.- Resonant Raman Scattering from cis and trans-Polyacetylene.- Electronic Sturcture of Polyenes Containing Chain Defects.- Characterization of Disorder in Polyacetylene.- Effect of Bond-Length Distribution on Raman Scattering of trans-Polyacetylene..- Ab Initio Study of the Influence ofMolecular Structure on the Static Polarizability of Conjugated Chains.- Luminescence from trans-Polyacetylene Degraded by Laser Irradiation.- Intensity and Frequency Vibrational Spectroscopy of Conducting Polymers.- V Aromatic Polymers and New Polymerization Reactions.- Aromatic Polymers: Evolution of Their Electronic Properties as a Function of Bond-Length Alternation and Torsion Angle Along the Chains.- Investigation of the Electronic Structure of Conducting Polymers by Electron Energy-Loss Spectroscopy.- The Mechanical Properties of Polypyrrole Plates.- Frequency and Temperature-Dependent Complex Conductivity of Some Conducting Polymers..- Structure and Conductivity of Some Heavily Doped Polypyrroles.- Polythieno [3,2-b]Pyrrole: Preparation, Structure and Properties.- Composites from Polypyrrole and Polyether/Polyester Thermoplastic Elastomer..- Infrared and Optical Absorption in Poly(4,4?diphenylenediphenylvinylene).- A Carbonyl-Olefin Exchange Reaction - New Route to Conjugated Polymers.- VI Electrochemistry.- Problems Related to Polymer Battery Design.- Electrochemical and Spectroelectrochemical Studies of Polypyrrole and Polyaniline..- Spectroscopic Characterization of Some Polyanilines.- Resonance Raman Scattering from Polyaniline.- In Situ Infrared Spectro-Electrochemical Investigations of Polythiophenes..- VII Polydiacetylene.- Raman Spectroscopy of Conjugated Polymers.- Electronic Structures of Conjugated Polydiacetylene Oligomer Molecules.- Excitons and Polarons in Polyconjugated Diacetylene Molecules.- Excitons in Short-Chain Polydiacetylene Molecules.- Luminescence of a Fully Polymerized Polydiacetylene.- Electron Motion on Polydiacetylene Chains.- VIII Magnetic Resonance.- Magnetic Resonance of Conjugated Polymers.- Nuclear Spin-Lattice Relaxation intrans-(CH)x. A Confined Soliton Model Including Nuclear Spin-Flip Diffusion.- 13C-NMR Investigation of an Oxygen Defect in trans-Polyacetylene.- NMR Study of Alkali-Doped (CH)x and (CD)x Films.- Magnetic Resonance Study of Metallic Polyacetylene.- In Situ ESR Study of Electrochemical Doping in Conducting Polymers.- IX Non-Conjugated Polymers.- Collective Phenomena in Polypeptides..- Photopolymers for Optical Memories and Waveguides.- Polymeric Electrets.- Electronic Processes in Polymeric Dielectrics Under High Electrical Fields..- Polymeric, Electrically Conducting ?-(p.Diisocyanobenzene)-2, 3-naphthalocyaninatoiron(II)..- Electrical Resistivity and IR Behaviour of Metal-Free and Copper Phthalocyanine - Carbon Black Mixtures..- X Related Topics.- Charge Density Waves and Electrical Instabilities in Niobium Triselenide and Similar Compounds..- Silicon Technology vs. Molecular Electronics.- Index of Contributors.