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Computational Chemistry Comparison and Benchmark DataBase
Release 22	May 2022
NIST Standard Reference Database 101

I	Introduction
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V	Cost comparisons
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XVIII	Bad calculations
XIX	Index of properties
XX	H-bond dimers
XXI	Oddities

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III.F.4. (XVIII.D.1.)

Negative orbital occupation numbers

A negative orbital occupation number indicates that the electronic ground state may not be well represented by a single electronic configuration.

Results for O₂^- (oxygen diatomic anion)

The following table lists the minimum orbital occupation numbers

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Methods with standard basis sets

		aug-cc-pVTZ
		aug-cc-pVTZ
Moller Plesset perturbation	MP2	-0.00570
		aug-cc-pVTZ

The following table lists the T1 diagnostic

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Methods with standard basis sets

		6-31G*
Coupled Cluster	CCSD	0.01389
		6-31G*