“…An additional feature of the deprotonative protocol for polythiophene is the possibility to use chlorothiophene 3, in which the use of a nickel N-heterocyclic carbene (NHC) complex was found to be effective [10,11]. We have also engaged in the design of the side chain of polythiophenes, and several functionalities have been successfully introduced [12][13][14]. We further focused on the copolymerization of thiophene, employing differently substituted thiophene monomers, with which several copolymerizations are plausible, giving thiophene-thiophene copolymers of random (statistical) [15], gradient [16,17], block [18,19], alternating [20][21][22][23], etc.…”