Structural features of conducting quasi-one-dimensional organic halides and pseudohalides

The physical properties of quasi-one-dimensional conductors are profoundly influenced by slight changes in structure. The unusual structural features of this class of materials include only short range order of the anions and structure modulation. The nature of disorder and structure modulation can affect the character of the metal-to-insulator transition at low temperature, and may allow us to make some predictions of low temperature behavior based on room temperature structural properties.