“…This review calls for more efforts to enrich versatile PDs for high-performance materials beyond bioactive pharmaceutical drugs and pesticides. 49,147 For the sake of more and better functional PD-ringbased materials, herein, the general strategy can be explored by combining the previous studies and interesting results with practical synthetic methodologies (Scheme 7), 50,106,[148][149][150][151][152][153][154][155][156] theoretical calculations, 129,[157][158][159][160][161] aza-quantity effect and azaregioisomerism, 159,160 and supramolecular strategies, 29,[162][163][164][165] the serendipitously discovered or well-designed of PD-based materials possess huge application prospects in the fields of optoelectronics, chromism, fluorescence probes, and energy materials. The unceasing breakthroughs in catalysis, 9,45,115,154,166,167 magnetic complexes, 155,168 molecular rotators (Fig.…”