“…57 The pyrenophanes 30, 68 and 70 form an interesting series, in which the two pyrene systems are increasingly bent, albeit not over a particularly large range (θ = 0°, 19.0° and 37.9° for 70, 68 and 30, respectively). 52,56,58,59 In the absorption spectra of these three compounds, the shortening of the bridges is accompanied by a red shift and loss of vibronic fine structure of the lowest energy bands, which was explained as being due to increasing interactions between the two pi systems as they are forced closer to one another. All three pyrenophanes exhibit pure excimer fluorescence (λ max = 556, 515, 469 nm for 30, 68 and 70, respectively) with Stokes shifts close to that of pyrene (5050 cm -1 ).…”