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Polyacenes have attracted considerable attention due to their various applications in organic optoelectronic materials. This study focuses on linear polyacenes and their electron affinity (EA) and ionization potential (IP) properties. We have employed our recent implementation of EA/IP equation of motion coupled cluster singles and doubles (EA/IP-EOMCCSD) methods which are accurate, computationally efficient and are capable of treating large systems employing reasonable basis sets size. The EA/IP results obtained for naphthalene, anthracene, tetracene, pentacene, hexacene and heptacene are in a good agreement with experiment. Comparison between quality of excitation energies obtained from IP-EOMCCSD and EE-EOMCCSD formalisms were also studied.

The interlayer interaction energy and its components of the bilayer graphene were obtained by extrapolation of the interlayer interaction energies and their components of the dimers formed by graphene with benzene, naphthalene, anthracene, phenanthrene, pyrene, tetracene, perylene, pentacene and hexacene. The resulting interaction energy of the bilayer graphene is −1.82 kcal/mol (or −79 meV) per carbon atom. The dispersion energy represents 70% of the total attractive energy between two graphene layers. In contrast, the electrostatic component is responsible for 25% of the total attractive interaction and the induction term contributes 5% to the stability of two graphene layers.

The singlet–triplet energy gap of biradicals created in benzene and polyacenes is investigated by density-functional-theory calculations. For the biradicals in benzene, naphthalene, anthracene, tetracene, pentacene, and hexacene, we find that the singlet state is energetically favored over the triplet state by 189, 191, 184, 199, 218, and 244 meV, respectively. The monotonous increase of the singlet–triplet energy gap from anthracene to hexacene is attributed to the enhanced stability of the singlet state for longer polyacenes. Our analysis shows that the spin density of the singlet state is delocalized over all benzene rings, but such a spin delocalization is not present for the triplet state.

The UV—VIS absorption spectrum of hexacene ( 1 ) and the VIS absorption spectra of hexacene triplet. T 1 ( 1 ). hexacene dication (1 2+ ) and hexacene dianion (1 2− ) are reported and assigned. The lifetime of T 1 ( 1 ) is 10 μs and the excitation energy is estimated as E T ( 1 ) = 52 = 5 kJ/mol.