A detailed, up-to-date review of transition metal-containingpolymersPromising advances in the electrical, optical, magnetic,biological, and catalytic properties that metal-containing polymerspossess have led to notable expansion in the field of transitionmetal-containing polymers. Frontiers in TransitionMetal-Containing Polymers provides a comprehensive, up-to-datereview of the synthesis, properties, and applications of transitionmetal-containing polymers, including an overview of the historicaldevelopment of these types of polymers.Written by the leading researchers in the field, this thoroughvolume covers the routes to organometallic and coordinationpolymers, as well as characterization and applications oftransition metal-containing monomers and polymers. Other topicsdiscussed include:* Metallo-supramolecular coordination polymers based on nitrogenligands* Coordination polymers based on phosphorus ligands* Polypeptide-based metallobiopolymers and DNA-basedmetallopolymers* Metallodendrimers* Self-assembly of metal-containing block copolymers* Applications including drug delivery, optics, moleculardevices, sensors, conductive materials, and more

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