ON HYDROGEN-BONDED COMPLEXES - THE CASE OF (HF)(2)

The hydrogen fluoride dimer (HF)(2) is the most completely characteriz ed hydrogen bonded species incorporating a donor molecule and an accep tor molecule. We provide a summary of experimental and theoretical inf ormation pertinent to the fundamental and harmonic vibrational frequen cies, equilibrium geometry and dissociation energies D-e and D-0 as we ll as a brief critical discussion including some new results on the po tential function and current ''best estimates'' of experimental quanti ties.