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Calculated Ionization Energy for CF2 (Difluoromethylene)

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Experimental Ionization Energy is 11.44 ± 0.03 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 11.452

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     10.212           10.359       10.238
density functional BLYP     10.778                    
B3LYP                 11.418        
B3LYPultrafine                       11.368  
M06-2X   11.618 11.172         11.378          
PBE1PBE     10.913                    
HSEh1PBE 11.300   10.912 11.290             11.070    
TPSSh     10.911 11.295     10.781       11.077    
wB97X-D   11.470 11.067 11.421   11.244     11.287 11.409 11.171 11.228  
B97D3 11.244   10.868 11.294   11.083   11.137 11.189   11.064 11.152 11.144
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     10.790   10.866       11.045        
MP2=FULL                       11.210  
MP3=FULL     10.980 11.337                  
MP4                     11.205    
B2PLYP     10.923               11.159    
B2PLYP=FULLultrafine     10.920             10.997 11.152    
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                 10.224
density functional B3LYP                 11.324
PBEPBE                 11.070
Moller Plesset perturbation MP2                 11.124
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.