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Calculated Energies of Hydrogen Bonds (0K)

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Dimer H Donor H Acceptor comment
HCOOHH2O Formic acid water dimer HCOOH Formic acid H2O Water

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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 104.5 34.2 27.6     43.2 23.3 -262.5 21.5 42.3
density functional B3LYP 136.7 72.5 53.5   66.4   29.8 54.4 45.4  
B3LYPultrafine 135.2 73.5 54.5           44.6  
M06-2X   dnf       dnf        
PBEPBE 157.3 80.9 58.1       35.6   50.0  
PBEPBEultrafine 155.9 61.0 59.1           49.2  
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 114.8 48.3 36.3 71.6     34.1 53.9 35.9  
Coupled Cluster CCSD(T)   68.3 56.5       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                 43.4
density functional B3LYP                 49.9
PBEPBE                 54.9
Moller Plesset perturbation MP2                 53.6

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 53.3 26.1 22.7 19.1 18.7
HF_cp_opt 72.1 27.4 25.1 21.9 21.8
density functional B3LYP_cp 63.4 54.7 47.4 24.9 42.4
B3LYP_cp_opt 79.2 56.5 50.1 28.2 45.0
B3LYPultrafine_cp 63.3 54.8 47.5   42.4
B3LYPultrafine_cp_opt 79.3 56.5 50.2   45.0
PBEPBE_cp 73.9 60.6 51.4 30.9 46.9
PBEPBE_cp_opt 89.6 62.2 54.2 33.6 49.5
PBEPBEultrafine_cp 65.3 38.7 51.5   47.8
PBEPBEultrafine_cp_opt 89.5 41.4 54.2   49.5
Moller Plesset perturbation MP2_cp 46.7 27.3 23.0 25.9 56.5
MP2_cp_opt 67.9 30.1 27.2 -204.7 dnf
Coupled Cluster CCSD(T)_cp   48.7 44.0 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.