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Ab initio calculations at the second-order Møller-Plesset perturbation theoretic level have been carried out to study the solvation of protonated water by phenol molecules. The results show that in addition to classical O-H...O hydrogen bonds, C-H...O, pi...H-O, and pi...H-C bonds are also formed, thus stabilizing the H3O+(C(6)H(5)OH)3 complex.
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Parthasarathi et al. (2006) studied this question.
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