Materials that emit in the deep-red (650 -700 nm) to near-infrared (NIR) (700 -1400 nm) wavelength range are used in numerous applications, including biomedical imaging, 1, 2 forensic science 3, 4 chemical sensors, dyes in photovoltaic cells, fibre optic telecommunications, and electroluminescent devices. Both transition metal complexes and conjugated polymers can be considered rather mature classes of red emitters, however, the development of purely organic emitters in the deep-red to NIR region is challenging because of three main issues. Firstly, red emitters are not as emissive as higher energy analogues due to the energy gap law, which states that radiative decay decreases and nonradiative decay accelerates as the emission wavelength shifts to the red. This is due to vibrational coupling between the excited state and the ground state. Secondly, the use of large p-systems, particularly in terms of the electron acceptor in donor-acceptor emitter design, leads to aggregation-caused quenching (ACQ) of the emission. Thirdly, most organic compounds are fluorescent and so only the electrogenerated singlet excitons are available to produce light in organic light emitting diodes (OLED), which limits the efficiency of these devices. One strategy to overcome these design limitation is to use thermally activated delayed fluorescence (TADF) emitters as these can harvest both singlet and dark triplet excitons to produce light in OLEDs. To design an efficient NIR TADF requires the compound to possess a small singlet-triplet energy gap (DEST), which will enable a fast reverse intersystem (RISC) that should outcompete nonradiative decay pathways involving triplet excitons. This requires the use of rigid, planar and strong donor and acceptor motifs that are reasonably weakly coupled to each other to extend p-conjugation. A second plausible strategy is to develop an emitter showing simultaneous TADF and aggregation-induced emission (AIE). Our emitter design adheres to this latter paradigm. We envisioned having a strong acceptor motif (i.e., ELUMO < -2.50 eV); however, the choice of acceptor moieties is somewhat limited, and most NIR TADF emitters (lPL > 650 nm) contain one of benzothiadiazole (BT), pyridal[2,1,3]thiadiazole (PT), naphtho[2,3c][1,2,5]thiadiazole (NZP) and pyrazine derivatives. Out of these acceptor motifs, the most common pyrazine derivatives are phenanthropyrazine (PP), quinoxaline (QNO), acenaphthopyrazine (AP), dibenzophenazine (DBP), phenazine (PH), and dipyridophenazine (DPP), and their acceptor strengths are shown in Figure . With the goal of pushing the emission further into the NIR, our acceptor design contains a dipyrazine embedded within an extended p-conjugative framework in the form of a pyrazine-quinoxaline (PQ). This motif can also be thought of as a fused tetraazaanthracene. Consequently, the presence of four nitrogen atoms makes the system quite electron deficient, reflected in a LUMO energy of -2.74 eV (Figure ).