observed in the UV/vis spectra of the clip quinones 2, 3, and 1 and the "half-clip" quinones 4, 5, and 6 with an increasing number of rings in the anellated aromatic unit (from benzene to anthracene) is the result of an increasing configuration interactionbetween a n --> pi* excitation of the quinoid component and a pi --> pi* excitation with intramolecular charge transfer (CT) character. The initial