5-(2-Pyridyl)-2,4-pentadiyn-1-ol was polymerized overNbCl
5- or TaCl
5-based catalystsfollowed by pyrolysis to obtain graphite-like pyropolymers. Theblack metathesis polymer,poly[5-(2-pyridyl)-2,4-pentadiyn-1-ol], has the structure of afully conjugated backbone
andwas converted into a polyacene-based polymer having pyridyl pendantgroups. Thepyropolymers prepared by vacuum pyrolysis over 700
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C have nitrogenatoms incorporatedinto graphene sheets. The polymers were characterized by elementalanalysis, TGA, FT-IR, laser Raman, NMR, XPS, X-ray diffraction, temperature-programmeddesorptionexperiments, charge/discharge experiments,
and SEM
and TEMstudies.