Abstract: The synthesis of a series of molecules D2-D1-A is described in which two electron donor chromophores (DI, a trialkylamino group, and D2, a (substituted) anilino group) and an electron acceptor chromophore (A, a (cyano) naphthyl group) are linked by a saturated paraffinic skeleton of well-defined conformation, which maintains closest atom-atom distances of 2.4 and 4.7 A between A and D', and D', respectively. The fluorescence ...
