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The magnitude of the extinction coefficient and the shift on substitution show that the band at 16,200 cm–1 in the absorption spectrum of Fe(C5H5)2+, which formerly was attributed to a 3d–3d ligand-field transition, is due to a ligand-to-metal e1u→e2g charge-transfer transition.
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R. Prins (1970) studied this question.