4.55 OEGetBondiVdWRadius

double OEGetBondiVdWRadius(unsigned int elemno)

Return the Van der Waals radius for a particular atomic number as tabulated in A. Bondi, ``Van der Waals Volumes and Radii'', Journal of Physical Chemistry, Vol. 68, No. 3, pp. 441, 1964. There are several experimental values for Van der Waals radii (see also OEGetPaulingVdWRadii) and many additional values used in molecular mechanics forcefields (including united-atom VdW radii), so there is often no definitive notion of Van der Waals radius.