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Generally speaking, there are three properties involved in an intermolecular interaction the probability of the interaction occurring, the strength of the interaction, and the type of interaction. These properties will be discussed in the following sections. 

The following is a summary, based on Ref. 1, of the types of molecular interactions that are important in understanding the structure and phase behavior of surfaces and interfaces. Because they are multicomponent, the interactions in systems with surfaces and interfaces are often related to the interactions between molecules in a particular type of medium. This is particularly important for self-assembling systems composed of surfactants or polymers, where the interactions and the subsequent equilibrium structures are strongly influenced by the type of solvent. 

In systems where the positive and negative charges are strongly bound on a single molecule (zwitterions), dipolar interactions between molecules can still occur. These interaction energies scale as in a vacuum, where a 

Nonpolar molecules in polar solvents, such as water, have their free energy raised by the hydrophobic effect. The difference in van der Waals interactions is a minor (15% of free energy) effect compared with the fact that the nonpolar molecules restrict the entropy of the water there are fewer ways for the water molecules to hydrogen bond in the presence of the nonpolar molecule. This 

Nonpolar molecules such as heptane and PE are attracted to each other by weak London or dispersion forces that result from induced dipole-dipole interactions. The temporary or transient dipoles are due to instantaneous fluctuations in the electron cloud density. The energy range of these forces is fairly constant and about 8 kJ/mol. This force is independent of temperature and is the major force between chains in largely nonpolar polymers, for example, those in classical elastomers and soft plastics such as PE. 

It is interesting to note that methane, ethane, and ethylene are all gases hexane, octane, and nonane are all liquids (at room conditions) while low molecular weight PE is a waxy solid. This trend is primarily due to an increase in the mass per molecule and to an increase in the London forces per polymer chain. The London force interaction between methylene units is about 8 kcal/mol. Thus, for methane molecules the attractive forces are 8 kJ/mol for octane it is 64 kJ/mol and for PE with 1000 ethylene (or 2000 methylenes) it is 2000 methylene units X 8 kJ/mol per methylene unit = 16,000 kJ/mol, which is well sufficient to make PE a solid and to break backbone bonds before it boils. (Polymers do not boil because the energy necessary to make a chain volatile is greater than the primary backbone bond energy.) 

Polar molecules such as ethyl chloride and PVC are attracted to each other by both the London forces, but also by dipole-dipole interactions resulting from the electrostatic 

FIGURE 2.8 Representation of (a) a crystalline portion from isotactic polypropylene (iPP), and (b) an amorphous portion from atactic polypropylene (aPP). 

FIGURE 2.9 Typical hydrogen bonding (shown as between hydrogen on nitrogen and oxygen for nylon-6,6. 

Short-range repulsive forces are a direct result of the Pauli exclusion principle and are thus quantum mechanical in nature. Kitaigorodskii (1961) has emphasized that such short-range repulsive forces play a major role in determining the packing in molecular crystals. The size and shape of molecules is determined by the repulsive forces, and the molecules pack as closely as is permitted by these forces. 

Repulsive forces determine, for example, the melting point of a solid. Whenever the packing is efficient, the melting point tends to be high. The attractive forces, on the other hand, govern the heat of vaporization and therefore the boiling point. Trouton s rule, which relates the normal boiling point of a liquid to its heat of vaporization, is a manifestation of this relation. 

Like the Coulombic forces, the van der Waals interactions decrease less rapidly with increasing distance than the repulsive forces. They include interactions that arise from the dipole moments induced by nearby charges and permanent dipoles, as well as interactions between instantaneous dipole moments, referred to as dispersion forces (Israelachvili 1992). Instantaneous dipole moments can be thought of as arising from the motions of the electrons. Even though the electron probability distribution of a spherical atom has its center of gravity at the nuclear position, at any very short instance the electron positions will generally not be centered on the nucleus. 

Quantitative treatment of the interaction between two identical Bohr atoms, consisting of point electrons and nuclei, leads to an expression which, apart from a numerical factor, is the same as that derived quantum-mechanically by London (1937)  

a0 and / are the polarizability and the ionization energy of the atom, respectively. The r6 dependence is also encountered in the so-called Debye interaction between a permanent dipole and an induced dipole, given by 

Molecules in gas, liquid, solid and colloidal particles in a sol and biological macromole-cules in living systems interact with each other. Knowledge of these interactions is mandatory since they determine all of the static and also the dynamic properties of the system. First of all, we should discriminate between the chemical and physical interactions. Chemical interatomic forces form chemical bonds within a molecule. However, the inter-molecular forces between molecules are different from chemical interatomic forces because they are physical in nature. In the first part of this chapter (Section 2.1) we will examine the chemical bonding within a molecule and also the effects of geometry and dipole moments in molecules. We will consider the physical interactions between molecules in the rest of the chapter (Sections 2.2 to 2.9). 

At moderate pressures the diffusion coefficient of a binary gas mixture of molecules i and j is well described by the Chapman-Enskog theory, discussed in Section 12.4  

In this equation, kg is the Boltzmann constant, T is the absolute temperature (Kelvin), mij = + mj), a,j is a length-scale in the interaction between the two molecules, and is a collision integral, which depends on the temperature and the in- 

It is clear that the viscosity, thermal conductivity, and diffusion coefficients transport coefficients are defined in analogous ways. They relate the gradient in velocity, temperature, or concentration to the flux of momentum, energy, or mass, respectively. Section 12.3 will present a kinetic gas theory that allows an approximate calculation of each of these coefficients, and more rigorous theories are given later in this chapter. 

Collisions between molecules occur in the gas phase. These collisions can transfer momentum and energy between the collision partners, or lead to net transport of mass from one part of the system to another. 

In the simplest approximations, molecules are assumed to be hard spheres. Interactions between molecules only occur instantaneously, with a hard repulsion, when the molecules centers come close enough to overlap. 

Taking if/0 normalized to 1, we then obtain from Equations (4.8) the RS energy corrections of the various orders as  

Variational approximations to the second-order energy E2 are obtained using the Hylleraas variational method outlined in Section 1.3 of Chapter 1. 

It is important to stress that the leading term of the RS perturbation Equations (4.7), the zeroth- order equation (Ho—Eo) Ao = 0, must be satisfied exactly, otherwise uncontrollable errors will affect the whole chain of equations. Furthermore, it must be observed that only energy in first order gives an upper bound to the true energy of the ground state, so that the energy in second order, E(2), may be below the true value. 

We now apply our RS perturbation equations to the interaction between two molecules A and B whose non-expanded intermolecular potential V 

4 Likely, i/f determines the energy corrections up to order 2n ) 1. We recall that all p (n — 0) corrections are not normalized but are normalizable. 

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A component in a vapor mixture exhibits nonideal behavior as a result of molecular interactions only when these interactions are very wea)c or very infrequent is ideal behavior approached. The fugacity coefficient (fi is a measure of nonideality and a departure of < ) from unity is a measure of the extent to which a molecule i interacts with its neighbors. The fugacity coefficient depends on pressure, temperature, and vapor composition this dependence, in the moderate pressure region covered by the truncated virial equation, is usually as follows ... 

The solutions can be labelled by their values of F and m.p. We say that F and m.p are good quantum. num.bers. With tiiis labelling, it is easier to keep track of the solutions and we can use the good quantum numbers to express selection rules for molecular interactions and transitions. In field-free space only states having the same values of F and m.p can interact, and an electric dipole transition between states with F = F and F" will take place if and only if... 

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Conservation laws at a microscopic level of molecular interactions play an important role. In particular, energy as a conserved variable plays a central role in statistical mechanics. Another important concept for equilibrium systems is the law of detailed balance. Molecular motion can be viewed as a sequence of collisions, each of which is akin to a reaction. Most often it is the momentum, energy and angrilar momentum of each of the constituents that is changed during a collision if the molecular structure is altered, one has a chemical reaction. The law of detailed balance implies that, in equilibrium, the number of each reaction in the forward direction is the same as that in the reverse direction i.e. each microscopic reaction is in equilibrium. This is a consequence of the time reversal syimnetry of mechanics. 

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Interactions between macromolecules (protems, lipids, DNA,.. . ) or biological structures (e.g. membranes) are considerably more complex than the interactions described m the two preceding paragraphs. The sum of all biological mteractions at the molecular level is the basis of the complex mechanisms of life. In addition to computer simulations, direct force measurements [98], especially the surface forces apparatus, represent an invaluable tool to help understand the molecular interactions in biological systems. 

Ultimately we may want to make direct comparisons with experimental measurements made on specific materials, in which case a good model of molecular interactions is essential. The aim of so-called ab initio molecular dynamics is to reduce the amount of fitting and guesswork in this process to a minimum. On the other hand, we may be interested in phenomena of a rather generic nature, or we may simply want to discriminate between good and bad theories. When it comes to aims of this kind, it is not necessary to have a perfectly realistic molecular model one that contains the essential physics may be quite suitable. 

The most important molecular interactions of all are those that take place in liquid water. For many years, chemists have worked to model liquid water, using molecular dynamics and Monte Carlo simulations. Until relatively recently, however, all such work was done using effective potentials [4T], designed to reproduce the condensed-phase properties but with no serious claim to represent the tme interactions between a pair of water molecules. 

Similarly, van der Waals forces operate between any two colloidal particles in suspension. In the 1930s, predictions for these interactions were obtained from the pairwise addition of molecular interactions between two particles [38]. The interaction between two identical spheres is given by... 

A possible explanation of the hysteresis could be the non-equilibrium of the DNA hydration. In that case the value of hysteresis has to depend on the size of the experimental sample. However, such a dependence is not observed in the wide range of DNA film thicknesses (0.05-0.2 fmi) [14], [12]. Thus, hysteresis cannot be a macroscopic phenomenon and does reflect the molecular interaction of water and the biopolymer. 

The interpretation of molecular surfaces is particularly important wherever molecular interactions, reactions, and properties play a dominant role, such as in drug design or in docking c.xpcrimcnts. 

The molecular surface of receptor site regions cannot be derived from the structure infoi mation of the molecule, bth represents the form ofthe active site of a protein surrounded by a ligand. This surface representation is employed in drug design in order to illustrate the volume of the pocket region or the molecular interaction layers [186. ... 

Knowledge of the spatial dimensions of a molecule is insufficient to imderstand the details of complex molecular interactions. In fact, molecular properties such as electrostatic potential, hydrophilic/lipophilic properties, and hydrogen bonding ability should be taken into account. These properties can be classified as scalar isosurfaces), vector field, and volumetric properties. 

These properties arc also relevant if molecular interactions arc considered. In contrast to electrostatic potentials, they only take effect at small distances between interacting molecular regions,... 

After an alignment of a set of molecules known to bind to the same receptor a comparative molecular field analysis CoMFA) makes it possible to determine and visuahze molecular interaction regions involved in hgand-receptor binding [51]. Further on, statistical methods such as partial least squares regression PLS) are applied to search for a correlation between CoMFA descriptors and biological activity. The CoMFA descriptors have been one of the most widely used set of descriptors. However, their apex has been reached. 

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If it is known that a drug must bind to a particular spot on a particular protein or nucleotide, then a drug can be tailor-made to bind at that site. This is often modeled computationally using any of several different techniques. Traditionally, the primary way of determining what compounds would be tested computationally was provided by the researcher s understanding of molecular interactions. A second method is the brute force testing of large numbers of compounds from a database of available structures. 

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This term is an explicit recognition of the importance of hydrogen bonding to molecular interactions. 

Molecular Interaction. The examples of gas lasers described above involve the formation of chemical compounds in their excited states, produced by reaction between positive and negative ions. However, molecules can also interact in a formally nonbonding sense to give complexes of very short lifetimes, as when atoms or molecules collide with each other. If these sticky collisions take place with one of the molecules in an electronically excited state and the other in its ground state, then an excited-state complex (an exciplex) is formed, in which energy can be transferred from the excited-state molecule to the ground-state molecule. The process is illustrated in Figure 18.12. 

There are two ways in which the volume occupied by a sample can influence the Gibbs free energy of the system. One of these involves the average distance of separation between the molecules and therefore influences G through the energetics of molecular interactions. The second volume effect on G arises from the contribution of free-volume considerations. In Chap. 2 we described the molecular texture of the liquid state in terms of a model which allowed for vacancies or holes. The number and size of the holes influence G through entropy considerations. Each of these volume effects varies differently with changing temperature and each behaves differently on opposite sides of Tg. We shall call free volume that volume which makes the second type of contribution to G. 

In the liquid state molecules are in intimate contact, so the energetics of molecular interactions generally make a contribution to the overall picture of the mixing process. There are several aspects of the situation that we should be aware of before attempting to formulate a theory for ... 

Chemiluminescence has been studied extensively (2) for several reasons (/) chemiexcitation relates to fundamental molecular interactions and transformations and its study provides access to basic elements of reaction mechanisms and molecular properties (2) efficient chemiluminescence can provide an emergency or portable light source (J) chemiluminescence provides means to detect and measure trace elements and pollutants for environmental control, or clinically important substances (eg, metaboHtes, specific proteins, cancer markers, hormones, DNA) and (4) classification of the hioluminescent relationship between different organisms defines their biological relationship and pattern of evolution. 

The use of molecular and atomic beams is especially useful in studying chemiluminescence because the results of single molecular interactions can be observed without the complications that arise from preceding or subsequent energy-transfer coUisions. Such techniques permit determination of active vibrational states in reactants, the population distributions of electronic, vibrational, and rotational excited products, energy thresholds, reaction probabihties, and scattering angles of the products (181). 

Absorption, metaboHsm, and biological activities of organic compounds are influenced by molecular interactions with asymmetric biomolecules. These interactions, which involve hydrophobic, electrostatic, inductive, dipole—dipole, hydrogen bonding, van der Waals forces, steric hindrance, and inclusion complex formation give rise to enantioselective differentiation (1,2). Within a series of similar stmctures, substantial differences in biological effects, molecular mechanism of action, distribution, or metaboHc events may be observed. Eor example, (R)-carvone [6485-40-1] (1) has the odor of spearrnint whereas (5)-carvone [2244-16-8] (2) has the odor of caraway (3,4). 

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