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What is Charge-transfer transition?

Definition 7.5 University Chemistry — Year 3 · Chapter 7 — Electronic Spectroscopy and Photophysics

A charge-transfer transition moves an electron from an orbital located mainly on one part of a system (a donor) to an orbital located mainly on another (an acceptor); its transition dipole is large, its band intense and broad, and its energy sensitive to the polarity of the solvent.

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