“…Examples are the Wessling, [26] sulfinyl, [27][28][29][30][31][32][33][34] sulfonyl, [35,36] xanthate, [37][38][39] dithiocarbamate, [40] Gilch, Heck, [69][70][71][72][73] Suzuki, [74,75] McMurry, [76] ring-opening metathesis, [77,78] acyclic diene metathesis, [79][80][81] Wittig, [82][83][84] Horner-Emmons, [85] Knoevenagel, [86] chemical vapor deposition, [87][88][89][90][91] and electropolymerization [92] methods. By assessing the pros and cons of all these approaches, the Gilch route stands out as one of the most powerful, versatile, and economically efficient approaches: simply by the treatment of a,a 0 -dihalogenated p-xylene derivatives 1 with potassium tert-butoxide (KO t Bu), high-molecular-weight PPVs 2 can be obtained in good to excellent yields (Scheme 1).…”