Oligomers and polymers of type [-CH 2 CHRCH 2 -(π)-] n comprising aryl units tethered by 2-substituted trimethylene were found to exist as a folding H-stacking structure in polar solvents such as CH 3 CN and in film, which was evidenced by their blue-shifted UV absorption compared to that of the parent aryl compounds, and exhibited predominantly excimer-like emission. In addition, annealing of the films resulted in a unique layered structure, which may arise from the folded polymer form.

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Polymers of type [CH2C(CO2Et)2CH2Ar]n (Ar = 1,4‐phenylene, 2,6‐naphthylene, 9,10‐anthrylene, or 1,4‐phenylene‐ethynylene‐1,4‐phenylene) were synthesized by alkylation of diethyl malonate with XCH2ArCH2X (X = Cl or Br). These polymers exhibited unexpectedly enhanced UV absorption and strong, broad, bathochromically shifted fluorescence spectra compared with the parent Ar compounds. The origin of these photophysical characteristics was postulated to be a configuration interaction between the π→π* excitation of the aromatic moiety and the n→π* excitation of the carbonyl moiety on the trimethylene tether via intramolecular charge transfer. © 2012 Wiley Periodicals, Inc. J Polym Sci Part A: Polym Chem, 2012

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