Intermolecular electrical response

The understanding of intermolecular electrical response is considered from the standpoint of both interaction energetics and property changes and from evaluation by ab initio calculations and by modeling. The objective of such understanding is to use property changes as better and better probes of behavior associated with intermolecular interaction and to design the most effective potential models for simulation of large molecular aggregations. The inherent transferability of electrical properties and the cooperativity of the complete electrical interaction is advantageous in connecting small cluster behavior with condensed phase behavior.