“…Although a number of compounds containing CC or CO double bonds have been polymerized to high molecular weight polymers by radical or ionic initiators, there are no papers on the addition polymerization of compounds with CN double bonds, to our knowledge, except for carbodiimide, 1, 2 isocyanates, − imines, 1-azabutadiene, and azine compounds. − Although 2,3-diaza-1,3-butadiene, formaldehyde azine (CH 2 N−NCH 2 ), which is the simplest azine, was prepared in 1959, there had been no systematic studies concerning the polymerization of the azine compound before the study by Kamachi et al , We have systematically investigated polymerizabilities of other azine compounds to understand polymerizabilities of the CN double bond and to obtain new polymers. − As a result, we have succeeded in the formation of trans -1,4-polymer from alkyl azine compounds (RCHN−NCHR, R = CH 3 , C 2 H 5 , n -C 3 H 7 ) 13-15 and in that of 1,2-polymer from trifluoroacetaldehyde azine (R = CF 3 ) …”