Electron transfer (thermal or photoinduced) between two metal sites differing only in
oxidation state. Quite often such
electron transfer reverses the
oxidation states of the sites. The term is frequently extended to the case of
metal-to-metal charge transfer between non-equivalent metal centres.
Source:
PAC, 1996, 68, 2223
(Glossary of terms used in photochemistry (IUPAC Recommendations 1996))
on page 2248
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A. D. McNaught and A. Wilkinson. Blackwell Scientific Publications, Oxford (1997).
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