06597 IUPAC Gold Book - van der Waals forces 10.1351/goldbook.V06597 V06597 current mentioned: dipole-induced dipole 1 The attractive or repulsive forces between molecular entities (or between groups within the same molecular entity) other than those due to bond formation or to the electrostatic interaction of ions or of ionic groups with one another or with neutral molecules. The term includes: dipole–dipole, dipole-induced dipole and London (instantaneous induced dipole-induced dipole) forces. The term is sometimes used loosely for the totality of nonspecific attractive or repulsive intermolecular forces. London https://goldbook.iupac.org//terms/view/L03617 bond https://goldbook.iupac.org//terms/view/B00697 dipole-induced dipole https://goldbook.iupac.org//terms/view/D01759 dipole–dipole https://goldbook.iupac.org//terms/view/D01758 intermolecular https://goldbook.iupac.org//terms/view/I03098 molecular entities https://goldbook.iupac.org//terms/view/M03986 PAC, 1994, 66, 1077. 'Glossary of terms used in physical organic chemistry (IUPAC Recommendations 1994)' on page 1175 (https://doi.org/10.1351/pac199466051077) https://goldbook.iupac.org/terms/view/V06597/html https://goldbook.iupac.org/terms/view/V06597/json https://goldbook.iupac.org/terms/view/V06597/plain Citation: 'van der Waals forces' in IUPAC Compendium of Chemical Terminology, 5th ed. International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry; 2025. Online version 5.0.0, 2025. 10.1351/goldbook.V06597 The IUPAC Gold Book is licensed under Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike CC BY-SA 4.0 International (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/) for individual terms. If you are interested in licensing the Gold Book for commercial use, please contact the IUPAC Executive Director at executivedirector@iupac.org . The International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry (IUPAC) is continuously reviewing and, where needed, updating terms in the Compendium of Chemical Terminology (the IUPAC Gold Book). Users of these terms are encouraged to include the version of a term with its use and to check regularly for updates to term definitions that you are using. 2026-04-21T05:49:52+00:00