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A series of ten 2,3,4,5-tetraphenylsiloles with different 1,1-substituents XYSi(CPh)(4) were prepared, and three of these, i.e., 1,1,2,3,4,5-hexaphenylsilole X = Y = Ph (3), 1-ethynyl-1,2,3,4,5-pentaphenylsilole X = Ph, Y = CdropCH (15), and 1,1-bis(phenylethynyl)-2,3,4,5-tetraphenylsilole X = Y = CdropCPh (18), were characterized crystallographically. The ground-and excited-states of the siloles were influenced by the inductive effect of the 1,1-substituents: with an increase in their electronegativity, the absorption and emission spectra of the siloles bathochromically shifted. A simple and reliable TLC-based method was developed for measurement of the solid-state luminescence spectra of the siloles. When molecularly dissolved in common solvents at room temperature, all the siloles were practically nonemissive (''off''). When poor solvents were added, the silole molecules clustered into nanoaggregates, which turned the emission \\
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