Novel structural motifs in macromolecular chemistry are introduced by the use of the Asinger multicomponent reaction. The combination of ammonia, acetone, α-chloroisobutyraldehyde, and either water or sodium hydrosulfi de, leads to an oxazoline or thiazoline scaffold, respectively, which is subsequently modifi ed with 10-undecenol and 10-undecenoyl chloride to obtain heterocycle-functionalized α,ω-dienes. These substrates are used as monomers in an acylic diene metathesis (ADMET) or thiol-ene step-growth polymerization. The thus-obtained polymers are studied in post-polymerization modifi cations, like hydrogenation and oxidation. Here, the thiazolidine-and oxazolidine-containing polymers show dramatically different chemical stability due to the heterocyclic moieties.