Specificity Of Intermolecular Forces Due To Quantummechanical And Thermal Charge Fluctuations*

Authors

• Herbert Jehle, University Of Nebraska, Lincoln

Document Type

Article

Date of this Version

1957

Comments

Published in Proceeding of the National Association of Science USA 1957 43 (4) 341-346. Copyright 1957 National Association of Science USA. Used by permission.

Abstract

The preceding note¹ (Paper I) developed the theory of the specificity of some intermolecular forces: the forces due to fluctuations of electric charge distribution in and over the interacting molecules. It was found that for a mixture of molecules in a liquid medium these forces cause a rearrangement of the molecules, so that molecules which have the same distribution of oscillator polarizabilities and oscillator orientations over the frequency spectrum tend to associate. This means that like molecules tend to become nearest neighbors. For that reason it was said that there is specific attraction between identical molecules.