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The substitution pattern determines whether distilbenylazobenzene compounds 1 or their subsequent products, the dihydrocinnolines 2, are isolated in the cobalt-catalyzed solvent-free reaction of azo compounds with diphenylacetylene. For several derivatives a photochromic equilibrium exists between the two forms.
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Halbritter et al. (1994) studied this question.
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