Luminescence Stimulated by Electron Transfer: Fluorescent Donor/Acceptor‐Substituted Stilbenes Containing Pyrenoid and Heteroaromatic Subunits

To correlate the electron transfer, electronic structure, and molecular structure of compounds with their optical and electrochemical properties was the motivation behind the synthesis and study of donor/acceptor-substituted stilbenoids such as 1. This particular compound displays electrochemically induced luminescence when the radical cation and radical anion are formed sequentially.