Product analyses and nanosecond time-resolved spectroscopy on laser flash photolysis werestudied for the photoinduced electron-transfer reaction of 3,4-di(
-styryl)furan (
6a). A combination of theseresults, kinetic, density functional theoretical (DFT), and time-dependent DFT analyses enabled assignmentof the absorption to the tetramethyleneethane (TME)-type radical cation (
7a+,
max = 392 nm) and thecorresponding singlet biradical (
17a,
max = 661 nm). These two intermediates were mechanistically linkedto each other with a facile back electron-transfer reaction. The present studies provide a new method forthe generation of aryl-substituted TME-type intermediates.