oligosquaraines 1−5, with stilbenoidscaffolds, were prepared by multistep syntheses in which the final steps consisted of condensation reactions between the semisquaric acid 21 and multiple resorcinols 12b−15b and 17b. The target compounds exhibit intense (ϵ > 250000 L·mol−1·cm−1) and sharp absorption bands with maxima between 687 to 778 nm, depending on the conjugation in the stilbenoidscaffold. Comparison with