**Meet the editor**

Ewa Schab-Balcerzak is a professor at the University of Silesia in Katowice, Poland, and head of the Department of Polymer Chemistry. She is also a professor at the Polish Academy of Sciences in the Centre of Polymer and Carbon Materials in Zabrze, where she began her research career in 1991. She received her MS in 1991, and her PhD in 1999 in polymer chemistry from Silesian University

of Technology in Gliwice. In 2010, she received her DSc in chemistry from Warsaw University of Technology. In 1999, Ewa Schab-Balcerzak was a visiting researcher at LEMP/MAO at the University of Montpellier, France. After, she went on to work in the Department of Organic and Polymeric Materials in Tokyo Institute of Technology in Japan from 2001 to 2002. In 2003, she worked at Fraunhofer Institute of Applied Polymer Research in Golm, Germany. Her expertise and main research interests are in the design, synthesis, and characterization of new processable polymers and low molecular weight compounds for optoelectronic and photonic applications. Her scientific achievements contain over 75 papers and a few book chapters.

Contents

**Preface IX** 

Chapter 1 **Electropolymerization of Polysilanes with Functional Groups 1**  Lai Chen, Xianfu Li and Jinliang Sun

Chapter 2 **Electropolymerization of Some Ortho-Substituted Phenol** 

Chapter 3 **Oxidation of Porphyrins in the Presence of Nucleophiles: From the Synthesis of Multisubstituted Porphyrins to the Electropolymerization of the Macrocycles 53**  Delphine Schaming, Alain Giraudeau, Laurent Ruhlmann,

> Clémence Allain, Jian Hao, Yun Xia, Rana Farha, Michel Goldmann, Yann Leroux and Philippe Hapiot

**of Novel Conducting Polymers Derived from 5-Amino-2naphtalensulfonic Acid, Luminol** 

Luz María Torres-Rodríguez, María Irene López-Cázares, Antonio Montes-Rojas, Olivia Berenice Ramos-Guzmán

Chapter 4 **Electrochemical Polymerization of Aniline 77** 

Chapter 5 **Electrochemical Preparation and Properties** 

**and from Mixtures of Them 97** 

and Israel Luis Luna-Zavala

Chapter 6 **Electrosynthesis and Characterization of Polypyrrole in the Presence** 

Tomislav Lj. Trišović and Branimir N. Grgur

**of 2,5-di-(2-thienyl)-Pyrrole (SNS) 119** 

Mir Ghasem Hosseini and Ali Akbar Entezami

**Kinetics, Mechanism, Electrochemical Studies and Characterization of the Polymer Obtained 21**  S.M. Sayyah, A.B. Khaliel, R.E. Azooz and F. Mohamed

**Derivatives on Pt-Electrode from Aqueous Acidic Solution;** 

Milica M. Gvozdenović, Branimir Z. Jugović, Jasmina S. Stevanović,

Nasser Arsalani, Amir Mohammad Goganian, Gholam Reza Kiani,
