  The mechanism that drives a metal-insulator transition in an undoped
quasi-one-dimensional Mott insulator is examined in the framework of the
Hubbard model with two different hoppings t_{perp 1} and t_{perp 2} between
nearest-neighbor chains. By applying an N_{perp}-chain renormalization group
method at the two-loop level, we show how a metallic state emerges when both
t_{perp 1} and t_{perp 2} exceed critical values. In the metallic phase, the
quasiparticle weight becomes finite and develops a strong momentum dependence.
We discuss the temperature dependence of the resistivity and the impact of our
theory in the understanding of recent experiments on half-filled molecular
conductors.
