METALLA-ENES AND METALLA-YNES - FROM SMALL MOLECULES TO INFINITE POLYMERS

Inorganic polymers with conjugated multiple bonds and metal atoms in the polymer main chain have recently been the subject of a series of publications. Such materials are of interest, inter alia, because of anticipated nonlinear optical properties. Marder et al. and Lewis et al. have synthesized polymeric alkynerhodium complexes such as 1, while Hopkins et al. have studied the optical properties of the polymeric nitrido complexes 2.