Van der Waals Radii of Elements

Batsanov, S. S.

Center for High Dynamic Pressures, Mendeleevo, Solnechnogorskii raion, Moscow oblast, 141570 Russia

Inorganic Materials 37(9):p 871-885, September 2001.

The available data on the van der Waals radii of atoms in molecules and crystals are summarized. The nature of the continuous variation in interatomic distances from van der Waals to covalent values and the mechanisms of transformations between these types of chemical bonding are discussed.