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This Microreview highlights the chemistry of the metacyclophanediene-dihydropyrene system, which is a reversible photochromic π switch. Although most studies have been carried out on systems with a single dihydropyrene, recently multiple dihydropyrenes have been fused to conjugated spacers to give multi-state switches.
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