Polymethines are compounds made up from an odd number of methine groups (CH) bound together by alternating single and double bonds.^[1] Compounds made up from an even number of methine groups are known as polyenes.

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1. ^ Kachovski and Dekhtyar, Dyes and Pigments, 22 (1983) 83-97

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