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Calculated Electron Affininty for BH3 (boron trihydride)

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Experimental Electron Affinity is 0.038 ± 0.015 eV
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.
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Electron Affinities in eV
Methods with predefined basis sets
composite G4 0.339

Electron Affinities in eV
Methods with standard basis sets
6-31+G** 6-311G** 6-311+G(3df,2p) TZVP cc-pVDZ cc-pVTZ aug-cc-pVTZ daug-cc-pVTZ
hartree fock HF               -0.219
density functional B3LYP       -0.046        
TPSSh 0.054         -0.140    
wB97X-D -0.060     -0.168 -0.060 -0.242 0.006  
B97D3 -0.059 -0.342 -0.009 -0.152   -0.226 0.062  
6-31+G** 6-311G** 6-311+G(3df,2p) TZVP cc-pVDZ cc-pVTZ aug-cc-pVTZ daug-cc-pVTZ
Moller Plesset perturbation MP2       -0.417        
MP3=FULL -0.336              
6-31+G** 6-311G** 6-311+G(3df,2p) TZVP cc-pVDZ cc-pVTZ aug-cc-pVTZ 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
density functional B3LYP                 -0.042
PBEPBE                 0.094
Moller Plesset perturbation MP2                 -0.263
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.