Journal
JOURNAL OF CHEMICAL EDUCATION
Volume 96, Issue 8, Pages 1671-1675Publisher
AMER CHEMICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1021/acs.jchemed.8b01044
Keywords
Upper-Division Undergraduate; Graduate Education/Research; Physical Chemistry; Interdisciplinary/Multidisciplinary; Noncovalent Interactions; Quantum Chemistry; Molecular Modeling
Funding
- U.S. Department of Energy, Office of Basic Energy Sciences, Division of Chemical Sciences, Geosciences, and Biosciences [DE-FG0217ER16362]
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Dispersion forces are ubiquitous in chemistry, yet they are often misunderstood. This article provides background into why they are called dispersion forces and explains how to describe them in terms of time-independent quantum mechanics. The article also describes the breakdown of the multipole series that is often used to describe dispersion forces, and it comments on the representation of dispersion forces in molecular mechanics. In general, the article tries to provide a proper framework for understanding and describing dispersion forces.
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