Royal Society of Chemistry, Chemical Science, 8(14), p. 1986-1996, 2023
DOI: 10.1039/d2sc05206g
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Highly symmetric multibranched phenyleneethynylenes exhibit intense fluorescence despite the presence of low-lying dark states. The inversion of the energy order of excited states is explained in terms of a novel phenomenon dubbed “symmetry swapping”.