| Over the past decade pi-conjugated organic polymers have attracted considerable attention because of their desirable characteristics similar to plastics (e.g., mechanical flexibility, simplicity and low-cost processing, etc.) as well as their interesting electronic/optical properties. The potential use of these materials in molecular electronics provides impetus for the development of new and modified pi-conjugated polymers. To that end, we propose to increase the dimensionality of pi-conjugation through formation of a two dimensional polymer. The synthesis of tri- and tetra-dentate monomers, which were designed for their predicted ability to form continuous conjugated sheets via surface confined polymerization, will be presented. |
