Graphene nanoribbons (GNRs) represent promising materials for the next generation of nanoscale electronics. However,d espite substantial progress towards the bottom-up synthesis of chemically and structurally well-defined all-carbon GNRs,s trategies for the preparation of their nitrogen-doped analogs remain at an ascent stage.T his scarce literature precedent is surprising given the established use of substitutional doping for tuning the properties of electronic materials. Herein, we report the synthesis of apreviously unknown class of polybenzoquinoline-based materials,w hichh ave potential as GNR precursors.Our scalable and facile approach employs few synthetic steps,inexpensive commercial starting materials, and straightforwardr eaction conditions.M oreover,d ue to the importance of quinoline derivatives for av ariety of applications,t he reported findings may hold implications across ad iverse range of chemical and physical disciplines.Graphene nanoribbons (GNRs), which are narrow strips of graphene featuring aq uantum confinement-induced bandgap,c onstitute ap romising class of materials for the next generation of semiconductor devices.[1-10] Theelectronic properties of GNRs are exquisitely sensitive to their width, heteroatom content, and edge character. [3][4][5] Thus,m uch research effort has been devoted to the preparation of GNRs that are structurally and chemically defined at the atomic level. [6][7][8][9][10] Although traditional top-down lithographic approaches have exhibited only limited success in this regard, [6][7][8][9][10] more recent studies have demonstrated the bottom-up preparation of pristine GNRs via the surfaceassisted [11][12][13][14][15][16][17][18][19][20][21][22] or solution-phase [23][24][25][26][27][28][29][30][31][32] synthesis of nanoribbon precursor polymers,followed by their cyclodehydrogenation. To date,these bottom-up strategies have primarily focused on all-carbon systems,w ith only al imited number of studies describing the preparation of nitrogen-containing GNR frameworks. [20-22, 31, 32] Given the immense potential of substitutional nitrogen doping for tailoring the propertieso f GNRs,the sparse literature precedent is surprising and likely arises from the challenges associated with the incorporation of heteroatoms at arbitrary locations in graphitic materials. [33,34] Herein, we describe the modular synthesis of polybenzoquinolines,which constitute ageneric class of GNR precursor polymers,and, to the best of our knowledge,have never been previously reported. We first develop general aza-DielsAlder reaction conditions for the synthesis of as eries of benzoquinoline model compounds.Subsequently,weprepare an AB-type bifunctional monomer and use the conditions validated for the model compounds to synthesize acongested polybenzoquinoline via aD iels-Alder-type polymerization reaction. [35][36][37] We in turn demonstrate the scope and modularity of our methodology by preparing polybenzoquinolines of various sizes that feature different peripheral substituents. Overa...