“…In order to systematically vary the crystal lattice in charge transfer systems which could be of interest as electrical semiconductors or conductors by changing the moIecuIar architecture"], we synthesized [2.2]-and [3.3]tetrathiafuIvalenophanes ("TTF-phanes"). For these compounds the following structural and stereo-isomers are possible: 1) "paracyclophane-like" compounds with diagonal 4',4'-and 5,5-linkage, which may exist as an achiral stereoisomer with approximately parallel TTF "axes" and all corresponding Cand Satoms of the two TTF groups [ ( l ) and (3), respectively] in the eclipsed position as well as a chiral stereoisomer with crossed TTF axes which formally is derived from (1) and (3), respectively, by 180" rotation of one of the TTF units about the axis through the C-4/C-5 points of linkage; 2) "metacyclophane-like" compounds with 43and 4,5'-linkage I (2) and (4), respectively], whose TTF groups, as in the metacyclophanes, could be in a step-like anti-conformation and-less likely-in a syn-arrangement; 3) finally, TTF-phanes in which one TTF group is linked metacyclophane-like, the other paracyclophane-like (4,5-/4,4'-linkage). In the synthetic method employed by us, in which the central C---C double bonds of the TTF groups were formed in the last step''], in principle, all the structural and stereo-isomers could be formed.…”