Polymer complexes have been attracting interest in many scientific and technological fields in recent years. Polymer complexes have found wide applications in bioinorganic industry, wastewater treatment, pollution control, hydrometallurgy, pre concentration, anionic polyelectrolyte hydrogels, cation-exchange resins, etc. Moreover, they recently showed potential applications in material science as catalytic, conductive, luminescent, magnetic, porous, chiral or non-linear optical materials. Although various extensive investigations on polymer complexes have been reported, most of these complexes are too complicated to be discussed quantitatively due to the non-uniformity of their structure. These compounds include not only “complexes of macromolecules” but also the structurally labile “metal complex”. Before detailed information can be obtained about the properties of polymer complexes, in particular about the reactivity and the catalytic activity, their structure must be elucidated. A polymer complex possessing a uniform structure may be defined as follows:

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