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Calculated Ionization Energy for C4 (Carbon tetramer)

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Experimental Ionization Energy is 12.54 ± 0.35 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
composite G4 336884.515

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     10.292           10.500       10.490
density functional B3LYP                 11.255        
B3LYPultrafine                       11.246  
M06-2X   11.175 11.118         11.379          
PBE1PBE     11.093                    
HSEh1PBE 11.220   11.083 11.262             11.297    
TPSSh     10.991 11.158     11.022       11.194    
wB97X-D   11.188 11.041 11.219   11.245     11.278 11.341 11.240 11.256  
B97D3 11.024                   10.986    
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     10.519   10.812                
MP2=FULL                       11.105  
MP3=FULL     10.482 10.697                  
MP4                     10.843    
B2PLYP     10.873               11.475    
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                 10.498
density functional B3LYP                 11.243
PBEPBE                 11.500
Moller Plesset perturbation MP2                 11.040
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.