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. 2009 Dec 10;113(52):21921–21927. doi: 10.1021/jp9074674

Figure 5.

Figure 5

Arrangements of individual transition dipole moments for (a) cyclic and (b) linear paraphenylenes during the S1 ← S0 excitation. The transition moments in the cyclic geometry effectively cancel, but the total transition moment increases proportionally with length in the linear systems.