“…π-Conjugated polymers have been actively investigated as potentially useful materials for optoelectronic devices such as organic light-emitting diodes and organic photovoltaics . Among them, poly(arylenevinylene)s constitute an important class of such polymers, ,,, and one of the dominant factors to determine their properties is the structure of their repeating units, which have led to the development of various repeating unit structures to date. ,,, Regarding the synthetic methods of poly(arylenevinylene)s, , in addition to the classical approaches such as the Gilch route (Scheme a) and the Wessling route (Scheme b), transition-metal-catalyzed processes such as olefin metathesis polymerization (Scheme c) and palladium-catalyzed cross-coupling polymerization (Scheme d) have also been widely explored. However, all these existing methods toward poly(arylenevinylene)s require the use of monomers having corresponding aromatic structures that appear in the repeating unit, and the preparation of monomers can be tedious and difficult for the synthesis of poly(arylenevinylene)s having a complex aromatic structure.…”