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Peculiarities of thermal transformations of metal-containing monomers and polymers prepared by various synthetic routes are analyzed. It is shown that the thermal stability of metalcarboxylate groups is determined by the spatial organization of the nearest environment and the microstructure of polymer chains formed as a result of thermal transformations. Main paths of thermal transformations of studied compounds are considered. Qualitative and quantitative compositions of the gaseous and solid-phase products at the end of transformations and some properties of forming polymer-metal nanocomposites are studied. 1 60th communication from "Preparation and Reactivity of MetalContaining Monomers" series. For 59th communication see [1].

Peculiarities of thermal transformations of metal-containing monomers and polymers prepared by various synthetic routes are analyzed. It is shown that the thermal stability of metalcarboxylate groups is determined by the spatial organization of the nearest environment and the microstructure of polymer chains formed as a result of thermal transformations. Main paths of thermal transformations of studied compounds are considered. Qualitative and quantitative compositions of the gaseous and solid-phase products at the end of transformations and some properties of forming polymer-metal nanocomposites are studied. 1 60th communication from "Preparation and Reactivity of Metal-Containing Monomers" series. For 59th communication see [1].

Based on a very recently published monograph a short overview on macromolecular metal complexes (metal complexes and metals in macromolecules) is given. The understanding of biological system is fundamentally important to construct artificial macromolecular metal complexes. A classification for the various up to now synthesized systems is given, and properties and potential applications are pointed out.

The scheme of computer simulation of the dynamics of the formation of metal-containing clusters in a polymer matrix during the solid-phase thermolysis of corresponding precursors is developed. The kinetics of particle nucleation and growth is studied within the framework of the model of diffusion-limited aggregation by the combined marching and Monte Carlo methods. Polymer media with different structural organization such as isotropic (globular) and anisotropic (layered and fibrillar) media are considered. Deterministic algorithms of the model are the decomposition of reactive metal-containing groups of a polymer, solid-phase diffusion of particles, and cluster dissociation. The proposed scheme makes it possible to visualize the process of cluster formation. 1 61st communication from "Preparation and Reactivity of MetalContaining Monomers" series. For 60th communication see [1].