The design and synthesis of mainchain chromophore polymers in a syndio
regic (head-to-head) configuration is described. Polymers were designe
d for both electric-field poling and Langmuir-Blodgett-Kuhn (LBK) depo
sition. LBK deposition gives intrinsically polar films (no E-field pol
ing) as evidenced by nonlinear optical (chi((2))) properties.