Inorganic and Organometallic Polymers with Special Properties: NATO Science Series E:, cartea 206

Framework Science.- Polymers for Multifunctional Applications: Some General Considerations.- An Objective for Polymers with Unusual Properties: Polymers with Delocalized Electronic States.- Ceramics from Organometallic Polymers: Industrial Perspectives.- The Current State of the Art in the Synthesis of Inorganic and Organometallic Polymers.- Polymer Synthesis.- Polymerization of Liquid Crystalline Monomers.- Electrosynthesis, A New Route to Disilanes, Polysilanes and Polycarbosilanes.- Catalytic Dehydro-and Dehydrosilyl-coupling: New Routes to Inorganic and Hybrid Organic/Inorganic Polymers.- Synthesis of Penta-alkoxy-and Penta-aryloxy Silicates Directly from SiO2.- Magnetic Materials.- Molecular Composites of the MPS3 Layered Inorganic Polymers: Chemistry, Magnetic, and Dielectric Properties.- Chemistry, Structures and Magnetic Properties of Mn(II)Cu(II) Molecular Compounds: Heterobinuclear Species, Ferrimagnetic Chains and Molecular-Based Ferromagnets..- Magnetic Molecular Materials.- Conducting And Electronic Materials.- Molecular Solids with Organic Conducting Chains and Inorganic Magnetic Chains: The (Per)2(mnt)2 Family. (M = Ni, Cu, Pd, Pt, Au, Fe and Co)..- Selective Synthesis and Some Electroconductive Properties of Organosilicon Polymers Containing Aromatic Units.- Crystal and Electronic Structure of Cobaltacene Intercalates of the Host Lattices SnS2-xSex (x=O, 0.3, 0.5, 1.3, 1.85, 2).- Approaches to Stacked, Semi-conducting Organometallics.- Supramolecular Organization of Phthalocyanines. Design and Synthesis of Low Dimensional Conductors.- Preceramic Materials.- Synthesis and Pyrolysis Chemistry of Polymeric Precursors to SiC and Si3N4.- A Catalytic Preparation of a New Preceramic Polymer: Transformation into SiC.- Transition Metal Oxo Polymers Synthesized via Sol-Gel Chemistry.- Organically Modified Silicates as Inorganic-Organic Polymers.- Nonlinear Optical Materials.- Resonant Nonlinear Optical Excitations in Glassy Polymers.- Rigid-Rod Transition Metal Acetylide Complexes, Oligomers, and Polymers for Nonlinear Optics.- Characterization.- Spectroscopic Characterization of the Pyrolysis Process of Pre-Ceramics Polymers.- Characterisation of Metallophthalocyanine Polymers for Application as Semiconductor Gas Sensor Material.- Aspects of Polyphosphazene Photochemistry.- Characterizing the Microstructures of New Polymers.- Report To Nato.- Inorganic and Organometallic Polymer with Special Properties. Progress, Potential and Problems.

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Optik, 95 No. 3, 1993