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Calculated Ionization Energy for P2 (Phosphorus diatomic)

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Experimental Ionization Energy is 10.53 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 10.806

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     9.396           9.309       9.205
density functional BLYP     10.160                    
B3LYP                 10.366        
B3LYPultrafine                       10.763  
M06-2X   10.537 10.477                    
PBE1PBE     10.839                    
HSEh1PBE 10.917     10.836             10.735    
TPSSh     10.456 10.465     10.327       10.352    
wB97X-D   10.612 10.480 10.489   10.504     10.434 10.489 10.368 10.372  
B97D3 10.527   10.308 10.335   10.357   10.258 10.283   10.230 10.239  
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     10.339   10.382       10.359        
MP3=FULL     10.013 10.027                  
B2PLYP     10.339               10.361    
Coupled Cluster CCSD(T)=FULL     10.102                    
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                 9.195
density functional B3LYP                 10.302
PBEPBE                 10.323
Moller Plesset perturbation MP2                 10.575
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.