… In this Account, our research on the self-assembly of merocyanine dyes during the past … ,
and the State of Bavaria for financial support of our research on merocyanine dye assemblies. …

… merocyanine dyes … self-assembled architectures, including discrete cyclic and bimolecular
π stacks12 as well as extended supramolecular polymers13 based on bis(merocyanine) dyes.…

… favoring dimerization over further self-assembly into larger … merocyanine dyes has
been exploited for the synthesis of defined dye stacks and supramolecular polymers by self-assembly …

… self-assembled hexameric and octameric dye stacks. Toward this goal, we selected merocyanine
dyes (… Different from other π-scaffolds, self-assembly of these dipolar dyes is not just an …

… on merocyanine dye aggregates suggest that these dyes are particularly suited for such
investigations due to their following outstanding features: i) This class of dyes … merocyanines is …

… , the merocyanine being a pyridinium analogue of the dye … synthesis of the merocyanine
dyes and intermediates described … The dyes readily protonate in air and, unless analysed soon …

… of dipolar aggregation of merocyanine dyes into antiparallel dimers enables the … self-assembled
merocyanine dye nanorods demonstrate that noncovalent synthesis of large assemblies …

… ,8 and for block copolymers that spontaneously self-assemble into well-defined micelles.9 …
However, our recent work on the aggregation of dipolar merocyanine dyes suggests …

… If such a concept is extended to tweezers of highly dipolar merocyanine dyes, we can
expect the formation of bimolecular complexes of high thermodynamic stability (Figure 1f). …

… report on the self-assembly of bis(merocyanine) dyes into helical … A complex self-assembly
sequence of these dipolar dyes into well… This self-assembly sequence proceeds over several …