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The relative π-electronic polarizabilities of ideal polymethines are essentially higher than those of comparable aromatic or polyene-like compounds; unsymmetrical merocyanines have the same polarizabilities as polymethines in polar solvents but polarizabilities similar to those of polyenes in non-polar solvents.
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Dähne et al. (1972) studied this question.
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