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XVII.C.1.

Calculated Ionization Energy for C4H2 (Diacetylene)

Experimental Ionization Energy is 10.17 ± 0.02 eV
Please note! These calculated ionizataion 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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Ionization Energies in eV
Methods with predefined basis sets
semi-empirical PM6  
Ionization Energies in eV
Methods with standard basis sets
3-21G 6-31G* 6-31+G** TZVP
hartree fock HF       8.846
density functional SVWN 10.485 10.244 10.434  
B3LYP       9.844
M06-2X   9.840    
HSEh1PBE   9.590    
Moller Plesset perturbation MP2FC       10.410
B2PLYP   9.636 9.835  
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.