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Define hydrogen bond. Is it weaker or stronger than the van der Waals forces?

Updated On: Nov 10, 2023
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A hydrogen bond is defined as an attractive force acting between the hydrogen attached to an electronegative atom of one molecule and an electronegative atom of a different molecule (may be of the same kind). 
Due to a difference between electronegativities, the bond pair between hydrogen and the electronegative atom gets drifted far away from the hydrogen atom. As a result, a hydrogen atom becomes electropositive with respect to the other atom and acquires a positive charge.

4δXδ.......Hδ+Xδ.....Hδ+Xδ4^δ-X^{δ-}.......H^{δ+} -X^{δ-}.....H^{δ+}-X^{δ-}

The magnitude of HbondingH-bonding is maximum in the solid state and minimum in the gaseous state. 
There are two types of HbondsH-bonds : 
(i) Intermolecular HbondH-bond e.g., HFHFH2OH_2O etc.
(ii) Intramolecular HbondH-bond e.g., onitrophenolo-nitrophenol
o-nitrophenol

Hydrogen bonds are stronger than Van der Walls forces since hydrogen bonds are regarded as an extreme form of dipoledipoledipole-dipole interaction

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