∑ in which represents the dielectric energy contribution to the interaction energy. The breakdown of this term into fragment-pairwise terms can be done either by treating the solvent charges as an additional fragment, or by distributing the dielectric term among the other fragmentpairwise contributions, as done above for electronic preparation. The latter approach is particularly useful because it results in a number of terms equal to that provided by the decomposition in the gas phase, allowing for a one-to-one comparison between the LED terms in the gas and condensed phases.