Intermolecular bonding

Bonding within a molecule has been fairly well understood, though it continues to attract attention nearly a century after Lewis/Langmuir defined a covalent bond. Could there be a 'bond' between molecules? [1,2] Hydrogen 'bonding' was proposed as an intermolecular bond by Latimer and Rodebush in 1920, within a few years after the covalent bond was defined.

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