A metal-insulator transition in quasi one-dimensional solids that occurs as a result of a band gap opening up at the Fermi energy due to a displacive distortion of the regular array increasing the unit cell length, usually a dimerization; the decrease in electronic energy outweighs the increase in lattice energy. Example: The transition in methylethylmorpholinium tetracyanoquinodimethanide at 335 K.
Source:
PAC, 1994, 66, 577. 'Definitions of terms relating to phase transitions of the solid state (IUPAC Recommendations 1994)' on page 588 (https://doi.org/10.1351/pac199466030577)