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Calculated Electron Affininty for HCN (Hydrogen cyanide)

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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.
Electron Affinities in eV
Methods with predefined basis sets
composite G4 -0.953

Electron Affinities in eV
Methods with standard basis sets
3-21G 3-21G* 6-31G* 6-31+G** 6-311G* 6-311G** 6-31G(2df,p) 6-311+G(3df,2p) TZVP cc-pVDZ cc-pVTZ aug-cc-pVTZ daug-cc-pVTZ
hartree fock HF     -2.314           -1.809       -0.141
density functional BLYP     -1.879                    
B3LYP                 -1.044        
B3LYPultrafine                       -0.370  
M06-2X   -2.363                      
PBE1PBE     -1.736                    
TPSSh     -1.691 -0.888     -1.724       -1.249    
wB97X-D   -2.275 -1.782 -0.964   -1.497     -1.185 -1.005 -1.357    
B97D3 -2.244   -1.775 -0.888   -1.452   -1.339 -1.125   -1.297    
3-21G 3-21G* 6-31G* 6-31+G** 6-311G* 6-311G** 6-31G(2df,p) 6-311+G(3df,2p) TZVP cc-pVDZ cc-pVTZ aug-cc-pVTZ daug-cc-pVTZ
Moller Plesset perturbation MP2     -2.327   -1.887       -1.946        
MP3       -2.444                  
MP3=FULL     -2.474 -1.575                  
B2PLYP                     -1.488    
Coupled Cluster CCSD(T)=FULL     -2.394                    
3-21G 3-21G* 6-31G* 6-31+G** 6-311G* 6-311G** 6-31G(2df,p) 6-311+G(3df,2p) TZVP cc-pVDZ cc-pVTZ aug-cc-pVTZ daug-cc-pVTZ

Electron Affinities in eV
Methods with effective core potentials (select basis sets)
CEP-31G CEP-31G* CEP-121G CEP-121G* LANL2DZ SDD cc-pVTZ-PP aug-cc-pVTZ-PP Def2TZVPP
hartree fock HF                 -1.804
density functional B3LYP                 -1.048
PBEPBE                 -1.066
Moller Plesset perturbation MP2                 -1.755
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.