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Calculated Energies of Hydrogen Bonds (0K)

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Dimer H Donor H Acceptor comment
H2OHCOOH Water formic acid dimer 1 H2O Water HCOOH Formic acid to O-C

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Energies in kJ mol-1
Methods with predefined basis sets

Energies in kJ mol-1
Methods with standard basis sets
3-21G 6-31G* 6-31+G** 6-311G* 6-31G(2df,p) 6-311+G(3df,2p) 6-311+G(3df,2pd) TZVP aug-cc-pVTZ daug-cc-pVTZ
hartree fock HF 57.1 8.6 7.1     24.5 5.4 -288.0 4.9 24.9
density functional B3LYP 66.3 34.1 27.2   30.5   5.7 27.0 21.8  
B3LYPultrafine 64.9 35.2 28.3           21.2  
M06-2X   dnf       dnf        
PBEPBE 68.9 36.8 28.7       7.1   21.2  
PBEPBEultrafine 68.9 15.9 28.9           21.3  
3-21G 6-31G* 6-31+G** 6-311G* 6-31G(2df,p) 6-311+G(3df,2p) 6-311+G(3df,2pd) TZVP aug-cc-pVTZ daug-cc-pVTZ
Moller Plesset perturbation MP2 62.3 15.2 12.7 40.0     10.7 30.1 15.8  
B2PLYP=FULLultrafine                 dnf  
Coupled Cluster CCSD(T) dnf -1823.2 dnf       dnf   dnf  
3-21G 6-31G* 6-31+G** 6-311G* 6-31G(2df,p) 6-311+G(3df,2p) 6-311+G(3df,2pd) TZVP aug-cc-pVTZ daug-cc-pVTZ

Energies in kJ mol-1
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                 25.2
density functional B3LYP                 24.0
PBEPBE                 24.0
Moller Plesset perturbation MP2                 28.5

Energies in kJ mol-1
Counterpoise corrected calculations (select basis sets)
3-21G 6-31G* 6-31+G** 6-311+G(3df,2pd) aug-cc-pVTZ
hartree fock HF_cp 25.9 4.5 3.9 1.7 1.8
HF_cp_opt 38.6 6.3 5.9 4.8 3.9
density functional B3LYP_cp 22.5 23.1 22.1 1.0 17.8
B3LYP_cp_opt 35.7 26.3 25.8 5.2 21.6
B3LYPultrafine_cp 22.6 23.2 22.2   18.0
B3LYPultrafine_cp_opt 35.7 26.3 25.9   21.8
PBEPBE_cp 22.2 23.2 22.1 2.3 18.0
PBEPBE_cp_opt 35.8 26.2 26.2 6.4 21.7
PBEPBEultrafine_cp 16.0 1.5 22.4   19.2
PBEPBEultrafine_cp_opt 36.0 5.5 26.3   21.8
Moller Plesset perturbation MP2_cp 20.6 3.7 5.0 4.5 11.0
MP2_cp_opt 36.7 6.3 7.9 8.7 14.0
Coupled Cluster CCSD(T)_cp   29.7 34.0 dnf dnf
CCSD(T)_cp_opt dnf dnf dnf dnf dnf
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.