Theoretical studies on the electronic structures and optical properties of the thiophene oligomer containing 2-(trifluoromethyl) thieno [3, 4-b] thiophene moiety and the CF3 end-caps Wei Weia · Fu-Quan Baia · Bao-Hui Xiaa,b,* · Hong-Xing Zhanga,* a State Key Laboratory of Theoretical and Computational Chemistry, Institute of Theoretical Chemistry, Jilin University, Changchun 130023, P.R.China. b College of Chemistry, Jilin University, Changchun 130023, P.R.China. *Correspondence to: Hong-Xing Zhang, Key Laboratory of Theoretical and Computational Chemistry, Institute of Theoretical Chemistry, Jilin University, Changchun 130023, P.R.China. Tel: +86-431-88498962 E-mail: zhanghx@mail.jlu.edu.cn Bao-Hui Xia, College of Chemistry, Jilin University, Changchun 130023, P.R.China. Key Laboratory of Theoretical and Computational Chemistry, Institute of Theoretical Chemistry, Jilin University, Changchun 130023, P.R.China. E-mail: bhxia@jlu.edu.cn 1 Table S1 The calculated dipole-allowed absorption for P1 under the TD-PBE1PBE/6-31G (d) level Transition Config (CI coeff.) E/nm(eV) Oscillator Singlet → singlet 1 X1A→A1A 94a→95a(0.70509) 411(3.01) 0.5724 2 X1A→B1A 92a→95a(0.13168) 313(3.97) 0.0865 290(4.27) 0.0087 282(4.40) 0.0632 277(4.48) 0.0316 276(4.50) 0.0150 93a→95a(0.22568) 94a→96a(0.64615) 3 X1A→C1A 93a→95a(0.32285) 94a→97a(0.54292) 4 X1A→D1A 93a→95a(0.50054) 94a→98a(-0.35181) 5 X1A→E1A 91a→95a(0.48785) 92a→95a(-0.32425) 6 X1A→F1A 91a→95a(0.35558) 94a→99a(0.47800) 2 Table S2 The calculated dipole-allowed absorption for P2 under the TD-PBE1PBE/6-31G (d) level Transition Config (CI coeff.) E/nm(eV) Oscillator Singlet → singlet 1 X1A→A1A 136a→137a(0.63189) 500(2.48) 1.3287 2 X1A→B1A 135a→137a(0.50562) 384(3.23) 0.0718 357(3.48) 0.0670 136a→138a(0.48760) 3 X1A→C1A 135a→137a(0.42466) 136a→138a(0.43490 4 X1A→D1A 134a→137a(0.27871) 336(3.69) 0.0469 5 X1A→E1A 134a→137a(0.59453) 315(3.94) 0.0778 6 X1A→F1A 136a→140a(0.40971) 306(4.05) 0.0029 136a→141a(0.53683) 3 Table S3 The calculated dipole-allowed absorption for P3 under the TDPBE1PBE/6-31G (d) level Transition Config (CI coeff.) E/nm(eV) Oscillator Singlet → singlet 1 X1A→A1A 178a→179a(0.63969) 550(2.25) 2.0641 2 X1A→B1A 177a→179a(0.58390) 436(2.84) 0.0619 178a→180a(0.38597) 3 X1A→C1A 177a→179a(-0.32828) 407(3.05) 0.0841 380(3.27) 0.0603 178a→180a(0.53633) 4 X1A→D1A 176a→179a(0.40158) 178a→181a(0.56351) 5 X1A→E1A 176a→179a(0.53261) 357(3.48) 0.0453 340(3.64) 0.4515 178a→181a(-0.35123) 6 X1A→F1A 177a→180a(0.64212) 4 Table S4 The calculated dipole-allowed absorption for CF3P1 under the TDPBE1PBE/6-31G (d) level Transition Config (CI coeff.) E/nm(eV) Oscillator Singlet → singlet 1 X1A→A1A 126a→127a(0.63173) 404(3.07) 0.5946 2 X1A→B1A 126a→128a(0.62395) 310(4.00) 0.0589 3 X1A→C1A 126a→129a(0.56375) 287(4.32) 0.0009 4 X1A→D1A 125a→127a(0.45543) 276(4.49) 0.1304 275(4.50) 0.0519 274(4.53) 0.0398 126a→130a(-0.30182) 5 X1A→E1A 123a→127a(-0.38622) 126a→130a(0.39692) 6 X1A→F1A 123a→127a(0.50600) 124a→127a(0.36436) Table S5 The calculated dipole-allowed absorption for CF3P2 under the TDPBE1PBE/6-31G (d) level Transition Config (CI coeff.) E/nm(eV) Oscillator Singlet → singlet 1 X1A→A1A 168a→169a(0.63283) 492(2.52) 1.3666 2 X1A→B1A 167a→169a(-0.37620) 378(3.28) 0.0656 168a→170a(0.58756) 3 X1A→C1A 167a→169a(0.53420) 349(3.55) 0.0397 168a→170a(0.29325) 4 X1A→D1A 168a→171a(0.60809) 335(3.70) 0.0313 5 X1A→E1A 166a→169a(0.61003) 311(3.99) 0.1050 6 X1A→F1A 168a→173a(0.58876) 302(4.10) 0.0011 5 Table S6 The calculated dipole-allowed absorption for CF3P3 under the TDPBE1PBE/6-31G (d) level Transition Config (CI coeff.) E/nm(eV) Oscillator Singlet → singlet 1 X1A→A1A 210a→211a(0.63929) 547(2.27) 2.1072 2 X1A→B1A 209a→211a(0.44859) 431(2.87) 0.0691 404(3.07) 0.0667 380(3.26) 0.0382 350(3.54) 0.0475 336(3.69) 0.4852 210a→212a(0.53838) 3 X1A→C1A 209a→211a(0.49486) 210a→212a(-0.38877) 4 X1A→D1A 208a→211a(0.28252) 210a→213a(0.62558) 5 X1A→E1A 208a→211a(0.60317) 210a→213a(0.16313) 6 X1A→F1A 209a→212a(0.63620) 6