INTERMOLECULAR FORCES AND BIOLOGICAL SPECIFICITY

Intermolecular Forces and Biological Specificity.

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Intermolecular forces.

The nature of molecular interactions is examined. Intermolecular forces are divided into long-range and short-range components; the former operate at distances where the effects of electron exchange are negligible and decrease as an inverse power of the separation. The long-range interactions may be subdividied into electrostatic, induction and dispersion contributions, where the electrostatic ...

Specificity of Intermolecular Forces Due to Quantum-mechanical and Thermal Charge Fluctuations.

Intermolecular forces and the glass transition.

Random first-order transition theory is used to determine the role of attractive and repulsive interactions in the dynamics of supercooled liquids. Self-consistent phonon theory, an approximate mean field treatment consistent with random first-order transition theory, is used to treat individual glassy configurations, whereas the liquid phase is treated using common liquid-state approximations....

Many-body effects in intermolecular forces.

The authors provide a review and literature survey of many-body effects in intermolecular forces. Topics include experimental methods, theoretical methods, many-body effects in atomic systems, and many-body effects in aqueous and nonaqueous molecular systems.