“…In many chemisorption cases, normally, the trend of molecular adsorption can be properly explained by relating the trend of adsorption energy with the amount of charge transfer to/from the adsorbed molecule (Agusta, Saputro, Tanuwijaya, Hidayat, & Dipojono, 2017;Nugraha et al, 2016Nugraha et al, , 2017Rusydi, Agusta, Saputro, & Kasai, 2012;Adhitya G. Saputro & Kasai, 2014;Adhitya G. Saputro, Kasai, Asazawa, Kishi, & Tanaka, 2013;Adhitya G. Saputro et al, 2019). However, this procedure cannot be directly used in the current case since the amount of charge transfer in all BTEX adsorption cases are almost equivalent, and yet their adsorption energies are quite different.…”