We will discuss, with the help of few selected examples, how the concept of through-space scalar spin-spin coupling between non covalently bonded nuclei has evolved in recent years. We will first present systems where 'no covalent bond' actually means that the two atoms are separated by a large number of bonds; then we will see cases where it is referred to true van der Waals dimers, but with the two atoms somehow constrained in their positions; we will finish with the most recent examples of liquids and even gaseous mixtures with full translational degrees of freedom in a regime of intermolecular/interatomic fast exchange.
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