ABSTRACT
For the time being, chelate- and especially cluster-type metal-containing monomers (MCMs) in terms of their polymerization conversions, are species with potentials that are to be realized in the near future. The synthesis of such MCMs is usually a hard to accomplish process, as compared with their ionic- or nV-type counterparts. Another problem is structural identification of the resulting products. Intermolecular-type chelate MCMs are only characterized by coordination bonds of a metal with the chelating donor atoms. In intramolecular monomeric metallochelates at least one fragment forms both nV- and o-bonds with the metal ion. A conventional method of synthesizing intermolecular-type metallochelate monomers relies on the metal compound reacting with the chelating monomers. Information concerning the polymerization conversions of metallochelate monomers has, in fact, appeared in the last few years. As in the case of the types of MCMs, copolymerization with conventional monomers represents a more routine practice than their homopolymerization.
