ABSTRACT
Polymers that contain transition metal complexes either directly or indirectly attached to a π-conjugated backbone are an exciting class of modern materials. In coupling transition metal complexes to π-conjugated polymers or oligomers, hybrid materials are formed in which the properties of the metal may be coupled to those of the conjugated backbone, when upon binding, the polymer or oligomer acts as a ligand to the metal (Whittell et al., 2011). A large number of these materials have been prepared and studied, and are of interest because they allow the electronic, optical, and catalytic properties of the metal complexes to be incorporated into an accessible, processible form (Whittell and Manners, 2007).
