Electrostatic interactions intermolecular forces

Z1, P Cieplak, W D Cornell and P A Kolhnan 1993. A Well-Behaved Electrostatic Potential Based 5thod for Deriving Atomic Charges - The RESP Model. Journal of Physical Chemistry 97 10269-10280. sen H C, J P M Postma, W F van Gunsteren and J Hermans 1981. Interaction Models for Water in lation to Protein Hydration. In Pullman B (Editor). Intermolecular Forces. Dordrecht, Reidel, I. 331-342. 

The ion-ion interaction is characterized by electrostatic forces between ions. These electrostatic forces are inversely proportional to the square of the separation distance and therefore have a much greater range than intermolecular forces which depend on higher powers of the reciprocal distance. 

Attractive or repulsive forces between molecular entities or groups within the same molecular entity (i.e., both intermolecular and intramolecular) not due to bond formation or to electrostatic interactions of ions or ionic groups with one another or with neutral molecules. The origin of van der Waals forces is in electric polarization of uncharged atoms, groups, or molecules and includes dipole-dipole interactions, dipole-induced dipole interactions, and London forces (induced dipole-induced dipole interactions). 

The technique of noncovalent derivatization employs the noncovalent intermolecular forces (hydrogen bonding, 7t-stacking, UpophUic-lipophilic interactions, and electrostatic interactions) to trap the molecular species in organized matrices. 

I was thinking particularly of electrostatic interactions between enzyme residues and substrate molecules. Let us compare the hydrophilic cytoplasmic phase (say, with dielectric constant e = 80) and the hydrophobic regions within membranes (say, with e = 2). Is it possible that protein-substrate interactions may be enhanced in certain membrane-associated enzyme schemes That is, might specific intermolecular forces play a more significant role in influencing the site-to-site migration of intermediate substrates, as compared to the same system in the hydrophilic phase [R. Coleman, Biochim. Biophys. Acta, 300, 1 (1973) P. A. Srere and K. Mosbach, Anti. Rev. Microbiol., 28, 61 (1974) and H. Frohlich, Proc. Nat. Acad. Sci. (U.S.), 72, 4211 (1975).]... 

Although the answers to questions such as these depend on a complex array of factors ranging from the structure of the relevant molecules to their environment and the chemical activity of the medium containing the molecules, intermolecular (guest-host) interactions play a central role in determining the rate and the efficiency of the ultimate result. A major component of the many possible intermolecular forces is the electrostatic interaction, particularly because of the long-range nature of the Coulombic forces and the inevitable influence of the ionic atmospheres that surround the macromolecules and substrates. 

The intermolecular forces of adhesion and cohesion can be loosely classified into three categories quantum mechanical forces, pure electrostatic forces, and polarization forces. Quantum mechanical forces give rise both to covalent bonding and to the exchange interactions that balance tile attractive forces when matter is compressed to the point where outer electron orbits interpenetrate. Pure electrostatic interactions include Coulomb forces between charged ions, permanent dipoles, and quadrupoles. Polarization forces arise from the dipole moments induced in atoms and molecules by the electric fields of nearby charges and other permanent and induced dipoles. 

Forces between macroscopic objects result from a complex interplay of the interaction between molecules in the two objects and the medium separating them. The basis for an understanding of intermolecular forces is the Coulomb1 force. The Coulomb force is the electrostatic force between two charges Qi and Q-2-... 

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