“…These aggregates are significantly different from the cyclic tetrameric aggregates found in triphenylsilanol, Ph3 SiOH (Puff, Braun & Reuter, 1991), and in triphenylgermanol, Ph3GeOH (Ferguson, Gallagher, Murphy, Spalding, Glidewell & Holden, 1992), whose graph set (Etter, MacDonald & Bemstein, 1990) is R~4(8). Triphenylmethanol can act as a host towards guest molecules such as methanol and dimethyl sulfoxide (Weber, Skobridis & Goldberg, 1989) albeit with hydrogen-bonding arrangements wholly different from that in unsolvated Ph3COH.…”