and its acid chloride used in the synthesis of the ortho POPOP analogs. In the series of unsymmetrical ortho POPOP analogs there arises a unique possibility for changes in the structure of the oxadiazole part of the molecule to affect the position of the spectral emission almost without affecting the long wavelength absorption band in the process. There were thus prepared efficient organic luminophores having an anomalously large Stokes fluorescence shift.One of the problems in the physical chemistry of organic luminophores is the preparation of efficiently fluorescing compounds characterized by minimal overlap of absorption and emission spectra and, thus, an increased value of the Stokes fluorescence shift [1]. Its resolution must overcome a number of technical problems concerned with the decreased light output resulting from reabsorption of the emitted light and also the possible absorption by impurities or the products of photodecomposition arising from the use of organic luminophores (e.g., serving as active dye laser agents, in plastic and liquid scintillators, and as tracers and probes in medico-biological research).From our viewpoint, a promising means of obtaining luminescence with an anomalously large Stokes shift is the,.use of rapid processes of structural relaxation in the excited state, characteristic for sterically hindered aromatic compounds. Among these we have investigated in this report the ortho analogs of POPOP (1,4-bis(5-phenyloxazol-2-yl)benzene).In previous work we used x-ray structural analysis to investigate the structure of a series of ortho POPOP analogs in the crystalline state [2]. It was found that these compounds exist in a nonplanar and unsymmetrical conformation characterized by different angles between the planes of the central phenylene and the arylazole fragments in the 1,2 position. Vibrational methods (IR, Raman) [3] and ultraviolet spectroscopy together with quantum chemical calculations [4] have shown that the conformation characterizing the crystalline state is also retained in the solution state. We have also studied the spectroluminescence properties and the dynamics of the process of structural relaxation (flattening) of the ortho POPOP analogs in the excited state.