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III.D.6.a. (XVII.D.)

Calculated Electron Affininty for SiF (silicon monofluoride)

Experimental Electron Affinity is 0.81 ± 0.02 eV
Please note! These calculated electron affinity energies have the vibrational zero-point energy (zpe) included, but the zpe has NOT been scaled. Click on an entry for more details, including the ionization energy with a scaled zpe.
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Electron Affinities in eV
Methods with predefined basis sets
semi-empirical PM6  
composite CBS-Q 0.802
Electron Affinities in eV
Methods with standard basis sets
STO-3G 3-21G 3-21G* 6-31G 6-31G* 6-31G** 6-31+G** 6-311G* 6-311G** 6-31G(2df,p) TZVP cc-pVDZ cc-pVTZ cc-pVQZ aug-cc-pVDZ aug-cc-pVTZ aug-cc-pVQZ
hartree fock HF -6.533 0.021 -0.230 0.496 0.038 0.038 0.518 0.218 0.218 -0.002 0.306 0.127 0.128 0.278 0.537 0.430 0.407
density functional LSDA -6.122 2.936 0.442 1.117 0.791 0.791 1.484 1.072 1.072 0.808   0.828 1.030   1.541    
SVWN   0.637         1.484                    
BLYP -6.755 -0.100 -0.282 0.388 0.078 0.078 0.839 0.366 0.366 0.101   0.107 0.324        
B1B95 -6.245 2.186 -0.080 0.571 0.261 0.214 0.804 0.423 0.423 0.213   0.269 0.430   0.914    
B3LYP -6.377 0.183 -0.019 0.661 0.309 0.311 0.973 0.567 0.567 0.319 0.703 0.359 0.518 0.723 1.028 0.949 0.932
B3LYPultrafine         0.310                        
B3PW91 -6.210 0.371 0.159 0.822 0.466 0.466 1.050 0.694 0.694 0.465   0.528 0.655        
mPW1PW91 -6.182 0.413 0.168 0.836 0.497 0.497 1.070 0.718 0.692 0.466   0.561 0.673        
M06-2X         0.276                        
PBEPBE -6.523 0.197 0.005 0.667 0.350 0.350 1.036 0.603 0.603 0.368   0.390 0.572        
HSEh1PBE         0.440                        
Moller Plesset perturbation MP2FC -7.096 -0.237 -0.381 0.296 0.018 0.018 0.650 0.202 0.202 0.217 0.413 0.164 0.405 0.644 0.853 0.829 0.831
MP2FU   -0.239     0.011 0.011 0.642 0.198 0.198     0.161   0.623      
MP3         0.043                        
MP4         -0.034               0.430        
B2PLYP         0.136   0.781                    
Configuration interaction CID         0.023     0.207                  
CISD         0.012                        
Quadratic configuration interaction QCISD   -0.274     -0.013 -0.013 0.620 0.177 0.177     0.162 0.417        
QCISD(T)         -0.023                        
Coupled Cluster CCD         0.004     0.190       0.182          
CCSD         -0.001                        
CCSD(T)                       0.152 0.436   0.869 0.864  
Electron Affinities in eV
Methods with effective core potentials (select basis sets)
CEP-31G CEP-31G* CEP-121G CEP-121G* LANL2DZ SDD
hartree fock HF 0.834 0.273   0.336 0.633 0.506
density functional B3LYP 1.018   1.037     0.673
Moller Plesset perturbation MP2FC 0.648 0.374 0.704 0.457 0.415 0.327
For descriptions of the methods (AM1, HF, MP2, ...) and basis sets (3-21G, 3-21G*, 6-31G, ...) see the glossary in section I.C. Predefined means the basis set used is determined by the method.