Calculation of Intermolecular interaction energy using perturbative methods allows to split up total interaction energy into its components. Each contribution can thus be individually analyzed. Hydrogen and water dimers, in several geometries and orientations, were fully studied using Symmetry Adapted Perturbative Theory (SAPT) and empirical SIBFA potential is fitted from these results.
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Creuzet et al. (1991) studied this question.