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Calculated Energies of Hydrogen Bonds (0K)

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Dimer H Donor H Acceptor comment
CH3OHH2O methanol water dimer CH3OH Methyl alcohol H2O Water

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Energies in kJ mol-1
Methods with predefined basis sets
semi-empirical PM6 dnf

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 cc-pVDZ aug-cc-pVTZ daug-cc-pVTZ
hartree fock HF 37.5 17.1 14.0     10.1   13.4   9.8 9.9
density functional B3LYP 52.9 25.2 16.8   23.9     17.7   12.3  
B3LYPultrafine 53.0 25.1 16.7             12.0  
PBEPBE 59.7 28.5 19.5             14.3  
PBEPBEultrafine 59.7 28.5 19.5             14.4  
3-21G 6-31G* 6-31+G** 6-311G* 6-31G(2df,p) 6-311+G(3df,2p) 6-311+G(3df,2pd) TZVP cc-pVDZ aug-cc-pVTZ daug-cc-pVTZ
Moller Plesset perturbation MP2 44.7 24.1 19.5 27.3       17.8   22.0  
3-21G 6-31G* 6-31+G** 6-311G* 6-31G(2df,p) 6-311+G(3df,2p) 6-311+G(3df,2pd) TZVP cc-pVDZ aug-cc-pVTZ daug-cc-pVTZ
Quadratic configuration interaction QCISD                 24.4    
Coupled Cluster CCD                 23.5    
CCSD(T) dnf -1399.9 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 cc-pVDZ 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                 11.1
density functional B3LYP                 15.0
PBEPBE                 18.2
Moller Plesset perturbation MP2                 16.9

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 9.3 13.1 10.4   8.0
HF_cp_opt 20.0 13.5 12.0   9.5
density functional B3LYP_cp 11.2 16.1 11.1   8.5
B3LYP_cp_opt 25.3 17.1 14.1   12.1
B3LYPultrafine_cp 11.4 16.0 11.1   8.3
B3LYPultrafine_cp_opt 25.0 17.1 14.0   11.8
PBEPBE_cp 7.3 12.9 9.2   6.4
PBEPBE_cp_opt 28.6 19.9 16.3   14.1
PBEPBEultrafine_cp 9.7 17.3 13.9   11.5
PBEPBEultrafine_cp_opt 28.6 19.9 16.4   14.1
Moller Plesset perturbation MP2_cp 6.0 14.6 10.4   18.6
MP2_cp_opt 18.2 16.0 13.8   19.8
Coupled Cluster CCSD(T)_cp   13.3 17.1 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.