Electron-electron double resonance in nitroxide radical solutions

All the pair interactions arising from the ground state H₂, N₂, CO₂, HF and LiH molecules are used as models for investigating the validity of the multipolar results (corresponding to the classical interaction of the permanent multipole moments of the interacting molecules) as a representation of the first-order Coulomb interaction energy. Charge overlap effects, the neglect of which are responsible for the misbehaviour of the multipolar results as the intermolecular distance R becomes small, are discussed as a function of the nature of the interacting molecules. Useful analytical formulae are presented which represent the numerical results. Some of the difficulties in using the multipolar results to represent the anisotropic part of a dimer potential are discussed in general and more specifically with respect to the evaluation of the mean square torque of nitrogen molecules.