Novel anthracene-layered polymers containing fluorescence quenchers such as ferrocene and nitrobenzene units at the polymer termini were designed and synthesized. Their optical properties were investigated in detail. The photoluminescence spectra of the polymers were featureless without vibrational structures, indicating that the anthracenes are effectively interacting each other in a single polymer chain in the excited state. Fluorescence emission from the layered anthracene units was effectively quenched by the aromatic units at the polymer termini owing to energy and electron transfer through a single polymer chain. (C) 2014 Wiley Periodicals, Inc.