Three new hybrid iodoargentates (H 2 pipe) 0.5 (α-AgI 2 ) (1), (Me 2 teda) 0.5 (α-AgI 2 ) (2), and (H 2 dpe) 0.5 (β-AgI 2 ) (3) have been synthesized under solvothermal conditions, whereby the aliphatic organic cations (H 2 pipe) 2+ and (Me 2 teda) 2+ (pipe = piperazine, teda = triethylenediamine) and the conjugated organic cation (H 2 dpe) 2+ [dpe = 1,2-di(4-pyridyl)ethylene] exhibit different contributions to both the crystal and electronic structures. The (H 2 pipe) 2+ and (Me 2 teda) 2+ cations direct the formation of α-type (AgI 2 ) -polyanionic chains and influence the bandgaps of 1 and 2 indirectly by modulating the iodoargentate anionic structures. By contrast, the (H 2 dpe) 2+