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• X-Ray crystallographic data for benzene/bromine charge-transfer complex (Tables S1–S5), toluene/bromine charge transfer complex (Tables S6–S10), bromohexamethylbenzenium tribromide (σ-complex) as the tris(dibromine) solvate (Tables S11–S15), bromohexamethylbenzenium hexafluoroantimonate (σ-complex) (Tables S16–S20); actual transmittance spectrum of the filter used for the isolation of UV light for the specific irradiation of the charge-transfer band of arene/bromine complexes (Fig. S1) and the detailed structure of the donor–acceptor chains in the crystal structure of the toluene/dibromine charge-transfer complex (Fig. S2)
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