As much as 8 kcal mol−1 separates the ionization energies of the lowest energy conformers of L-phenylalanine. This conformation-dependent energy difference, by far the largest reported to date for any molecule, is associated with the drastic change in hydrogen bonding upon ionization (see picture).
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Lee et al. (2002) studied this question.