The sum of van der Waals radii - A pitfall in the search for bonding

Zeitschrift fur Naturforschung - Section B Journal of Chemical Sciences

Volumn 62, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 235-243

  Schiemenz, Günter Paulus ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KIEL   (Germany)

Author keywords

Interactions; Limits of precision; Polarized covalent bonds; Supramolecular aggregates; Van der waals radii; Weak attractive

Indexed keywords

BEAM PLASMA INTERACTIONS; CHEMICAL BONDS;

CHEMICAL BONDINGS; INTER-ATOMIC DISTANCES; LIMITS OF PRECISION; SUPRAMOLECULAR AGGREGATES; VAN DER WAALS RADIUS; WEAK ATTRACTIVE; WEAK BONDING;

VAN DER WAALS FORCES;

EID: 35649021690     PISSN: 09320776     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1515/znb-2007-0215     Document Type: Article

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