The mechanism governing the formation of intermolecular charge transfer bands: a series of polyoxomolybdates as a case study.

A series of proof-of-concept models of polyoxomolybdates with different protonated disubstituted aniline counterions and the same ß-Mo8O26 polyanion were synthesized to study the mechanism governing the formation of the intermolecular charge transfer (inter-CT) band.