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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 2 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 61.2 14.9 12.8     31.4 11.4 -281.7 9.7 30.6
density functional B3LYP 67.4 41.4 33.5   37.5   12.6 32.9 28.3  
B3LYPultrafine 65.9 42.5 34.5           27.8  
M06-2X           dnf        
PBEPBE 69.8 44.2 35.1       14.2   27.9  
PBEPBEultrafine 69.7 22.4 35.3           28.2  
B97D3                   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
Moller Plesset perturbation MP2 61.4 21.0 17.5 44.9     16.6 34.3 dnf  
Coupled Cluster CCSD(T)   43.3 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       37.4 49.8       30.8
density functional B3LYP       38.0 47.2       30.2
PBEPBE                 30.4
Moller Plesset perturbation MP2       41.6 45.8       34.2

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 28.0 9.3 10.5 7.6 7.7
HF_cp_opt 42.0 11.4 12.5 10.4 9.5
density functional B3LYP_cp 22.8 29.7 29.3 7.5 18.1
B3LYP_cp_opt 37.8 33.3 32.9 dnf dnf
B3LYPultrafine_cp 22.8 29.7 29.4   18.4
B3LYPultrafine_cp_opt 37.8 33.3 33.3   27.5
PBEPBE_cp 24.1 28.9 28.5 9.1 24.1
PBEPBE_cp_opt 38.6 32.5 32.6 13.1 28.8
PBEPBEultrafine_cp 16.7 8.2 29.7   24.6
PBEPBEultrafine_cp_opt 37.3 12.7 33.5   27.9
Moller Plesset perturbation MP2_cp 18.9 7.1 9.4 9.9 35.9
MP2_cp_opt 38.6 10.3 12.1 14.1 dnf
Coupled Cluster CCSD(T)_cp   29.7 37.1 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.