1.1 INTRODUCTION
This is an exciting time to be involved in the field of inorganic polymers.
The advances being made in the core areas of inorganic polymer chemistry are
truly remarkable and outstanding, using any logical definition. Recent synthetic
breakthroughs are very impressive. Just a few years ago, no one envisioned
the synthesis of polyphosphazenes at room temperature or the ready synthesis of
organometallic polymers through ring-opening polymerizations. Both are realities
at the present time. These and other examples of both main group and metalcontaining
polymers are discussed in Chapter 2.