Nonbonded forces

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(This page is quite redundant to the older pages: nonbonded interactions and intercrystolecular forces)

The classification is intentionally kept nonstandard here.

(wiki-TODO: Add visual mermaid diagram.)

Exchange interaction related forces

  • Pauli repulsion – almost the only repulsive non-bonded force and the most important one – (related to degeneration pressure)
  • attractive exchange – expanding the space for an electron rather than squeezing it – (leads to covalent bonding beyond non-bonded forces)

Basically the Heisenberg uncertainty phase space see-saw.
Squeezing electrons in position-space implies necessary expansion in impulse-space and thus more kinetic energy.

Coulombic forces

  • monopole Coulombic forces => ionic forces – can be strongly attractive but not always counted to non-bonded forces(?)
  • multipole forces ~> leads to Keesom and Debye forces that are subsummized by van der Waals forces (below) as the ones featuring real dipoles

Van der Waals forces

Dipole-dipole interactions

  • Hydrogen bonds
  • Keesom force (real to real) – it should be possible for these to be acting repulsively

These are not dispersion forces as no virtual dipoles are involved. (wiki-TODO: Check that later.)

Dispersion forces (i.e. virtual dipoles involved)

  • Debye force (virtual to real)
  • London force (virtual to virtual)

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