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intermolecular forces chem as hydrogen bonding

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For hydrogen bonding to occur you need two things:

1) a positively charged "donor" hydrogen
2) an electronegative element "acceptor"

In CH3F whilst the Fluorine is a good H bond acceptor none of the hydrogens are sufficiently d+ to give strong H-bonds.

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