We discuss the intriguing photophysics of a giant molecular spoked wheel of π-conjugated arylene-alkynylene chromophores on the single-molecule level. This "molecular mesoscopic" structure, CH, shows fast switching between the 12 identical chromophores since the fluorescence is unpolarised but only one chromophore emits at a time.
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