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Calculated Ionization Energy for C2N2 (Cyanogen)

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Experimental Ionization Energy is 13.37 ± 0.01 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 13.403

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     11.984           12.102       12.020
density functional BLYP     12.440                    
B3LYP                 13.059        
B3LYPultrafine                       13.032  
M06-2X   13.359 13.232                    
PBE1PBE     12.892                    
HSEh1PBE 13.052   12.874 12.980             12.999    
TPSSh     12.705 12.809     12.667       12.827    
wB97X-D   13.204 13.004 13.100   13.141     13.143 13.345 13.089 13.099  
B97D3 12.762   12.591 12.721   12.739   12.755 12.784   12.727 12.752  
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     14.091   14.247       14.247        
MP3=FULL     13.222 13.317                  
B2PLYP     13.027               13.248    
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                 12.029
density functional B3LYP                 13.028
PBEPBE                 12.835
Moller Plesset perturbation MP2                 14.474
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.