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Calculated Ionization Energy for N2O (Nitrous oxide)

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Experimental Ionization Energy is 12.889 ± 0.004 eV
Please note! These calculated ionizataion 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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Ionization Energies in eV
Methods with predefined basis sets
semi-empirical PM3  
composite G4 12.833

Ionization Energies 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 daug-cc-pVTZ
hartree fock HF     11.058           11.012       11.051
density functional BLYP     12.541                    
B3LYP                 12.878        
B3LYPultrafine                       12.870  
M06-2X   12.448 12.849         12.961          
PBE1PBE     12.723                    
HSEh1PBE 12.490   12.718 12.817             12.740    
TPSSh     12.642 12.738     12.547       12.662    
wB97X-D   12.538 12.788 12.871   12.813     12.791 13.201 12.743 12.770  
B97D3 12.559   12.683 12.802   12.739   12.772 12.783   12.710 12.757 12.754
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 daug-cc-pVTZ
Moller Plesset perturbation MP2     13.720   13.669       13.666        
MP2=FULL                       13.981  
MP3=FULL     12.634 12.724                  
MP4                     13.498    
B2PLYP     12.827               12.930    
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 daug-cc-pVTZ

Ionization Energies 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                 11.054
density functional B3LYP                 12.858
PBEPBE                 12.794
Moller Plesset perturbation MP2                 13.908
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.