Electrostatic

The electrostatic effects are the simplest to understand in general terms: they arise from the straight-forward classical interaction between the static charge distributions of the two molecules. They are strictly pairwise additive and may be either attractive or repulsive.

Electrostatic forces: interactions between static electric fields

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1. Chapter 2 of Jensen, F. (2017). Introduction to computational chemistry. John wiley & sons. ↩

2. Chapter 10 of Cooksy, A. (2014). Physical Chemistry: Quantum chemistry and molecular interactions. Pearson. ↩