A solution, solid-state, and computational study is reported of polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbon PAH/PAH(CF ) donor/acceptor (D/A) charge-transfer complexes that involve six PAH(CF ) acceptors with known gas-phase electron affinities that range from 2.11(2) to 2.805(15) eV and four PAH donors, including seven CT co-crystal X-ray structures that exhibit hexagonal arrays of mixed π-stacks with 1/1, 1/2, or 2/1 D/A stoichiometries (PAH=anthracene, azulene, coronene, perylene, pyrene, triphenylene; n=5, 6). These are the first D/A CT complexes with PAH(CF ) acceptors to be studied in detail. The nine D/A combinations were chosen to allow several structural and electronic comparisons to be made, providing new insights about controlling D/A interactions and the structures of CT co-crystals. The comparisons include, among others, CT complexes of the same PAH(CF ) acceptor with four PAH donors and CT complexes of the same donor with four PAH(CF ) acceptors. All nine CT complexes exhibit charge-transfer bands in solution with λ between 467 and 600 nm. A plot of E(λ ) versus [IE(donor)-EA(acceptor)] for the nine CT complexes studied is linear with a slope of 0.72±0.03 eV eV . This plot is the first of its kind for CT complexes with structurally related donors and acceptors for which precise experimental gas-phase IEs and EAs are known. It demonstrates that conclusions based on the common assumption that the slope of a CT E(λ ) versus [IE-EA] plot is unity may be incorrect in at least some cases and should be reconsidered.

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