return to home page Computational Chemistry Comparison and Benchmark DataBase Release 22 (May 2022) Standard Reference Database 101 National Institute of Standards and Technology
You are here: Home > Ions > Electron Affinity > Calculated Electron affinity OR Calculated > Energy > Ion > Calculated Electron affinity

Calculated Electron Affininty for NCl (nitrogen monochloride)

18 06 04 13 53
Please note! These calculated electron affinity energies have the vibrational zero-point energy (zpe) included, but the zpe has NOT been scaled. Click on an entry for more details, including the ionization energy with a scaled zpe.
Electron Affinities in eV
Methods with predefined basis sets
composite G4 0.673

Electron Affinities in eV
Methods with standard basis sets
3-21G 3-21G* 6-31G* 6-31+G** 6-311G* 6-311G** 6-31G(2df,p) 6-311+G(3df,2p) TZVP cc-pVDZ cc-pVTZ aug-cc-pVTZ cc-pV(T+d)Z daug-cc-pVTZ
hartree fock HF     -0.949           -0.659         -0.588
density functional BLYP     -0.244                      
B3LYP                 0.580          
B3LYPultrafine                       0.811    
M06-2X   -0.321 -0.007                      
PBE1PBE     -0.120                      
HSEh1PBE 2.155   -0.119 0.656             0.242      
TPSSh     -0.074 0.631     -0.115       0.217      
wB97X-D   -0.309 -0.029 0.672   0.251     0.474 0.672 0.249 0.662    
B97D3 -0.302   -0.257 0.575   0.085   0.560 0.324   0.089 0.593    
3-21G 3-21G* 6-31G* 6-31+G** 6-311G* 6-311G** 6-31G(2df,p) 6-311+G(3df,2p) TZVP cc-pVDZ cc-pVTZ aug-cc-pVTZ cc-pV(T+d)Z daug-cc-pVTZ
Moller Plesset perturbation MP2     -0.470   -0.233       0.054          
MP2=FULL                       0.710 0.124  
MP3=FULL     -0.492 0.202                    
MP4                     0.107      
B2PLYP     -0.227               0.185      
3-21G 3-21G* 6-31G* 6-31+G** 6-311G* 6-311G** 6-31G(2df,p) 6-311+G(3df,2p) TZVP cc-pVDZ cc-pVTZ aug-cc-pVTZ cc-pV(T+d)Z daug-cc-pVTZ

Electron Affinities in eV
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                 -0.784
density functional B3LYP                 0.477
PBEPBE                 0.320
Moller Plesset perturbation MP2                 0.309
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.