In situ electrochemical microbalance studies of polymerization and redox processes in polymeric complexes of transition metals with Schiff bases

The mechanism and kinetics of polymerization of [M(Schiff)] complexes (M = Ni, Pd, Cu; Schiff is tetradentate N2O2 Schiff bases) and also the regularities of redox processes involving poly-[M(Schiff)] polymers are studied by electrochemical quartz crystal microbalance method. The number of electrons involved in the reversible oxidation-reduction of each polymer fragment is calculated and the composition of species that take part in the charge transport at the polymer oxidation-reduction is elucidated.