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Pancake π-stacking produces shorter contacts than van der Waals bonding but it has strongly preferred configurations. By high-level multireference average quadratic coupled cluster theory for the singlet and triplet, we identify the specific orbital component and the nonspecific vdW contributions in the prototypical pancake-bonded dimer of phenalenyl thereby explaining the configurational preferences.
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