Polymers Based on Schiff-base Ligands

Iron-centered six-arm star block copolymers 7.37 (Fig. 7.6) have been investigated in detail by small-angle X-ray scattering, TEM, and AFM [64]. When heated for ca. 2 days at 160°C, thin films of the polymers form iron nanodusters with diameters of ca. 20-40 nm (see TEM image. Fig. 7.7). This type of approach offers considerable potential for the single-step fabrication of nanoscale-pattemed inorganic particles in polymer films. 

Coordination Polymers Based on Schiff-Base Ligands 

Schiffbase ligation has attracted significant attention as a method for creating coordination polymers with interesting morphological, catalytic, or conductive properties. For example, a series of well-characterized, thermotropic, liquid-crystalline 

Electropolymerization techniques have also been popular for the preparation of electrodes modified by thin films of Schiff-base metallopolymers for prospective electrocatalytic, chemical sensing, and electrochromic applications [79-85]. In 

In order to prepare highly conducting materials, redox-matching of the oxidation potentials of the organic polymer and the metal center has been productively utilized [83, 84]. For example, the thiophene-substituted Schiff-base cobalt com- 

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