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Calculated Ionization Energy for C2H6 (Ethane)

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Experimental Ionization Energy is 11.52 ± 0.04 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 G3B3 11.366

Ionization Energies in eV
Methods with standard basis sets
3-21G 3-21G* 6-31G 6-31G* 6-31G** 6-31+G** 6-311G* 6-311G** 6-31G(2df,p) 6-311+G(3df,2p) TZVP cc-pVDZ cc-pVTZ cc-pVQZ aug-cc-pVDZ aug-cc-pVTZ aug-cc-pVQZ daug-cc-pVTZ
hartree fock HF                                   10.028
density functional LSDA 11.322     11.287 11.240 11.327 11.401 11.343 11.206     11.210 11.323   11.276 11.324    
BLYP 10.793 10.793 10.769 10.750 10.708 10.817 10.885 10.838 10.680   10.844 10.688 10.828          
B1B95 11.141 11.141 11.113 11.084 11.084 11.080 11.136 11.073 10.986   11.074 10.972 11.055   11.008 11.055    
B3LYP 11.216 11.216 11.189 11.167 11.113 11.189 11.255 11.197 11.074   11.200 11.072   11.187 11.131 11.180 11.186  
B3LYPultrafine       11.167                       11.179    
B3PW91 11.236 11.236 11.195 11.168 11.109 11.162 11.221 11.156 11.065   11.153 11.058 11.130          
mPW1PW91 11.257 11.257 11.216 11.187 11.123 11.176 11.235 11.164 11.076   11.163 11.072 11.136   11.097 11.137    
M06-2X 11.438 11.382 11.408 11.379 11.318 11.371 11.440 11.369 11.281   11.368 11.235 11.354   11.267 11.353    
PBEPBE 10.888 10.888 10.852 10.830 10.778 10.867 10.926 10.869 10.744   10.873 10.752 10.855   10.816 10.858    
PBE1PBE 11.208 11.208 11.170 11.140 11.140 11.128 11.186 11.113 11.025   11.114 11.022 11.087   11.049 11.087    
HSEh1PBE 11.200 11.200 11.162 11.133 11.068   11.181 11.110 11.021   11.111 11.016 11.086   11.045 11.085    
TPSSh       10.999   11.089     11.056       11.057          
wB97X-D   11.323   11.311   11.358   11.358     11.367 11.151 11.319     11.319    
B97D3 10.996     11.019   10.942   10.944   10.940 10.949   10.930     10.934    
3-21G 3-21G* 6-31G 6-31G* 6-31G** 6-31+G** 6-311G* 6-311G** 6-31G(2df,p) 6-311+G(3df,2p) TZVP cc-pVDZ cc-pVTZ cc-pVQZ aug-cc-pVDZ aug-cc-pVTZ aug-cc-pVQZ daug-cc-pVTZ
Moller Plesset perturbation MP2 11.331 11.331 11.350 11.225 11.515 11.560 11.321 11.597 11.529   11.577 11.492 11.682 11.725 11.567 11.705 11.734  
MP2=FULL 11.331 11.331 11.350 11.372 11.515 11.561 11.458 11.594 11.533   11.578 11.493 11.682 11.724 11.567 11.703 11.731  
MP3       11.394   11.566                        
MP3=FULL       11.392   11.606                        
MP4 11.352     11.369       11.618         11.691          
B2PLYP 11.228 11.228 11.210 11.192 11.188 11.249 11.267 11.253 11.160   11.253 11.144 11.269   11.198 11.275    
Coupled Cluster CCD 11.406 11.406 11.415 11.421 11.590 11.628 11.502 11.664 11.601   11.642 11.570 11.728   11.638 11.746    
3-21G 3-21G* 6-31G 6-31G* 6-31G** 6-31+G** 6-311G* 6-311G** 6-31G(2df,p) 6-311+G(3df,2p) TZVP cc-pVDZ cc-pVTZ cc-pVQZ aug-cc-pVDZ aug-cc-pVTZ aug-cc-pVQZ 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                 10.040
density functional B3LYP                 11.182
PBEPBE                 10.856
Moller Plesset perturbation MP2 11.380 11.397 11.420 11.454 11.407 11.406     11.563
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.