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Calculated Ionization Energy for C3 (carbon trimer)

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Experimental Ionization Energy is 13 ± 0.1 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
composite G4 12.347

Ionization Energies 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                 11.718       11.580
density functional BLYP     11.349                    
B3LYP                 12.419        
B3LYPultrafine                       12.421  
M06-2X   12.416 12.386                    
PBE1PBE     12.076                    
HSEh1PBE 12.176   12.056 12.239             12.247    
TPSSh     11.961 12.119     11.978       12.123    
wB97X-D   12.497 11.516 11.687   11.690     11.716 11.687 11.640 11.643  
B97D3 11.558   11.404 11.604   11.586   11.596 11.656   11.597 11.611  
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     10.816   11.073       11.074        
MP2=FULL                       11.327  
MP4                     17.623    
B2PLYP     11.575               11.938    
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

Ionization Energies 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                 11.573
density functional B3LYP                 11.842
PBEPBE                 11.432
Moller Plesset perturbation MP2                 11.269
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.