To access the desired dicationic acridinium salts, a simple and easily tunable synthetic pathway was envisioned, allowing a rapid synthesis of a diverse set of new chromophores. Inspired by our previous work on pyrylium and pyridinium carbene hybrids, we targeted a carbene addition/deprotonation protocol utilizing N-substituted acridinium salts. Upon addition of IMes carbene to a solution of N-Me acridinium 1a, the addition product 2 could be isolated (Scheme 1). Deprotonation of intermediate 2 with a strong base such as KHMDS or a second equivalent carbene gives rise to the neutral IMes/acridinium hybrid 3a in 64% yield over two steps. In analogy, the synthesis of the N-arylated 3b or longer N-alkyl hybrids 3c can be performed simply by starting from the corresponding N-Ph/N-alkyl acridinium salts 1b/1c. Next, a selection of two stable carbenes featuring a different degree of π-accepting properties, CAAC and DAC were investigated. Both were reacted with N-Me as well the N-Ph acridinium salts to give the hybrids 4a/4b and 5a/5b in good yields of 63-84% in a one-pot strategy. Due to convenience, two equivalents of carbene were utilized in which the second equivalent deprotonates the intermediate 2, circumventing its isolation. The protonated carbene side product can be easily separated by extraction and reused. Subsequently, the electrochemistry of the new hybrid molecules was investigated by cyclic voltammetry (Figure ; for 3c see the SI). While the N-Me vs.