Polyoxyphenylenes exhibit some unique properties which make them very attractive candidates for use as materials for protective coatings [l], deposition of reactive [2-41 or conductive coatings [5] and production of potentiometric sensors [6,7]. They are hard and thermally stable [81. However, since they cannot be dissolved in ordinary solvents, they cannot be used as vehicles for an electrophoretic deposition process. Nevertheless, poly(anilines) have recently received great attention, owing to their good stability in the presence of oxygen and water and their interesting electrochemical properties, for the development of lightweight batteries [9] and electrochromic devices [lo]. However, these polymers, like many other conducting polymers, are not soluble in common organic solvents because of the stiffness of their backbone. This limitation creates problems for large-scale applications [ill. The incorporation of polar functional groups or long flexible alkyl chains in the polymer backbone is a common technique used to prepare respectively water or organic soluble polymers [12]. Also, of the various para-substituted anilines, (because of the preferential head to tail polymerization mechanism) only para-aryl anilines are electropolymerized [ill. Analysis of the polymer can be carried out more easily on a material that is soluble, rather than insoluble, and thus analysable by standard techniques [13]. Several authors have studied the electro-oxidation of p-NH,PhOH and found that the oxidation product is pquinoneimine which undergoes subsequent hydrolysis to p-benzoquinone [14] with the reaction occurring in the homogenous medium owing to the slower rate of hydrolysis of quinoneimine than diffusion; hence in most cases no electrode coating is observed. The purpose of this work was to obtain a soluble and electroactive conducting polymer with characteristics similar to those of polyaniline so that the various unanswered questions such as the kinetics of electropolymerization, processability, effect of molar mass etc. can be dealt with in depth.