Alaa S. Abd-El-Aziz is the Associate Vice-President (Academic and Research) at theUniversity ofBritish Columbia Okanagan. In 1997, he was named a Fellow of the Chemical Institute of Canada, and has been the recipient of a number of awards including the Manitoba Outstanding Chemist Award, the Erica & Arnold Rogers Award for Excellence in Research and Scholarship, and the Clifford J. Robson Memorial Award for Excellence in Teaching.Charles Carraher is Professor of Chemistry atFloridaAtlanticUniversity and Associate Director of theFloridaCenter for Environmental Studies. Dr. Carraher previously was Dean of the Charles E.Schmidt College of Science at FAU, Chair of the Science Division at theUniversity of South Dakota and Chair of the Department of Chemistry at Wright State University. His research deals with the general topic of polymers as applied to electronics, computers, biomedicine, instrumentation and construction.Pierre Harvey is Professor of Chemistry at the University of Sherbrooke.Charles Pittman came to Mississippi State in 1983 as Professor of Industrial Chemistry and Catalysis. He was appointed Full Professor in 1975 and University Research Professor in 1977. He is also Research Director of the University/Industry Chemical Research Center.Martin Zeldin is Visiting Senior Research Scholar at the University of Richmond in Virginia. He received his Ph.D. in inorganic chemistry in 1968 from Pennsylvania State University.

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• Preface xiiiSeries Preface xv1. Introduction to Photophysics and Photochemistry 1Shawkat M. Aly, Charles E. Carraher Jr., and Pierre D. Harvey2. Luminescent Organometallic Coordination Polymers Built on Isocyanide Bridging Ligands 45Pierre D. Harvey, Se´bastien Cle´ment, Michael Knorr, and Je´roˆme Husson3. Luminescent Oligomeric and Polymeric Copper Coordination Compounds Assembled by Thioether Ligands 89Michael Knorr and Fabrice Guyon4. Applications of Metal Containing Polymers in Organic Solar Cells 159Chris S. K. Mak and Wai Kin Chan5. Functional Silole-Containing Polymers 191Junwu Chen, Yong Cao, and Ben Zhong Tang6. Photophysics and Photochemistry of Polysilanes for Electronic Applications 205Starr Dostie, Cetin Aktik, and Mihai Scarlete7. Polymers with Metal-Metal Bonds as Models in Mechanistic Studies of Polymer Photodegradation 255David R. Tyler, Bevin Daglen, and Ginger Shultz8. Optical Properties and Photophysics of Platinum-Containing Poly (aryleneethynylene)s 289Wai-Yeung Wong9. Luminescence in Polymetallic Gold-Heteronuclear Derivatives 325Antonio Laguna and Jose´ M. Lo´pez-de-Luzuriaga10. Functional Self-Assembled Zinc(II) Coordination Polymers 365Chi-Chung Kwok and Chi-Ming Che11. Redox and Photo Functions of Metal Complex Oligomer and Polymer Wires on the Electrode 387Mariko Miyachi and Hiroshi NishiharaIndex 415