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The interaction energy of phenyl phosphonic acid (\u2013PO3H2) with SO2 was determined to be the strongest (\u221210.1 kcal\/mol), which is about 2.5 times greater than the binding energy with unfunctionalized benzene (\u22124.1 kcal\/mol). To better understand the nature of SO2 interactions with functionalized benzenes, electron redistribution density maps of the relevant complexes with SO2 were created. In addition, three of the top performing functional groups were selected (\u2013PO3H2, \u2013CNH2NOH, \u2013OSO3H) to modify the IRMOF-8 organic linker and calculate its SO2 adsorption capacity with Grand Canonical Monte Carlo (GCMC) simulations. 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