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Calculated Ionization Energy for Al2 (Aluminum diatomic)

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Experimental Ionization Energy is 5.4 ± 1 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 5.933

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     4.739           5.130       4.789
ROHF     4.842                    
density functional BLYP     5.626                    
B3LYP                 5.849        
B3LYPultrafine                       5.720  
M06-2X   5.846 5.674                    
PBE1PBE     6.017                    
HSEh1PBE 5.501   5.487 5.484             5.468    
TPSSh     5.993 5.974     6.025       6.005    
wB97X-D   6.433 6.305 6.293   6.303     6.299 6.293 6.287 6.282  
B97D3 5.681   5.831 5.820   5.744   5.783 5.808   5.762 5.766  
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     5.530   5.520       5.594        
MP3=FULL     5.612 5.580                  
B2PLYP     5.285               5.667    
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                 4.821
density functional B3LYP                 5.734
PBEPBE                 6.079
Moller Plesset perturbation MP2                 5.756
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.