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NIST Standard Reference Database 101

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III.F.2.

Completed calculations for (CH₃)₃CC(CH₃)₃ (tetramethylbutane)

Methods and basis sets for which an energy has been calculated. "e" indicates just an energy has been calculated. "o" indicates an optimized geometry. "v" indicates vibrational frequencies. "s" followed by a number indicates completed calculations for different states (for example s1ov). "c" followed by a number indicates completed calculations for different conformations (for example c2ov).
See the Calculated Energies page (section III.A.1) for more calculated properties.

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Methods with predefined basis sets

semi-empirical	AM1	c1o
	PM3	c1o c2o
composite	G1	c1e
	G2MP2	c1e
	G2	c1e
	G3	c1e
	G3B3	c1e
	G4	c1e
	CBS-Q	c1e

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Methods with standard basis sets

		STO-3G	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	aug-cc-pVTZ	daug-cc-pVTZ
hartree fock	HF	c1o	c1o	c1o	c1o	c1o	c1o	c1o	c1o	c1o	c1o		c1o c2ov	c1o	c1o		c1o
density functional	LSDA	c1o	c1o	c1o	c1o	c1o	c1o	c1o	c1o	c1o	c1o		c1o	c1o	c1o
	BLYP	c1o	c1o	c1o	c1o	c1o	c1o	c1o	c1o	c1o	c1o		c1o	c1o	c1o
	B1B95	c1o	c1o	c1o	c1o	c1o	c1o	c1o	c1o	c1o	c1o		c1o	c1o	c1o
	B3LYP	c1o	c1o	c1o	c1o	c1o	c1o	c1o	c1o	c1o	c1o		c1o c2ov	c1o	c1o	c1o
	B3LYPultrafine		c1o			c1o	c1o	c1o	c1o				c1o	c1o	c1o
	B3PW91	c1o	c1o	c1o	c1o	c1o	c1o	c1o	c1o	c1o	c1o		c1o	c1o	c1o
	mPW1PW91	c1o	c1o	c1o	c1o	c1o	c1o	c1o	c1o	c1o	c1o		c1o	c1o	c1o
	M06-2X	c1o	c1o	c1o c2ov	c1o	c1o	c1o	c1o	c1o	c1o	c1o	c1o	c1o	c1o	c1o
	PBEPBE	c1o	c1o	c1o	c1o	c1o	c1o	c1o	c1o	c1o	c1o		c1o	c1o	c1o
	PBEPBEultrafine		c1o			c1o	c1o	c1o	c1o				c1o	c1o	c1o
	PBE1PBE	c1o	c1o	c1o	c1o	c1o	c1o	c1o	c1o	c1o	c1o		c1o	c1o	c1o
	HSEh1PBE	c1o	c1o	c1o	c1o	c1o	c1o	c1o	c1o	c1o	c1o		c1o	c1o	c1o
	TPSSh		c1o	c1o	c1o	c1o	c1o	c1o	c1o		c1o		c1o	c1o	c1o
	wB97X-D			c1o c2ov		c1o c2ov		c1o c2ov		c1o c2ov			c1o c2ov	c1o c2ov	c1o c2ov	c1o c2ov
	B97D3		c1o c2ov			c1o c2ov		c1o c2ov		c1o c2ov		c1o c2ov	c1o c2ov		c1o c2ov	c1o c2ov	c1o
		STO-3G	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	aug-cc-pVTZ	daug-cc-pVTZ
Moller Plesset perturbation	MP2	c1o	c1o	c1o	c1o	c1o	c1o	c1o	c1o	c1o	c1o		c1o c2ov	c1o	c1o
	MP2=FULL	c1o	c1o	c1o	c1o	c1o	c1o	c1o	c1o	c1o	c1o		c1o	c1o	c1o
	MP3					c1o		c1o
	MP3=FULL					c1o		c1o					c1o	c1o	c1o
	MP4		c1o			c1o
	MP4=FULL		c1o			c1o
	B2PLYP	c1o	c1o	c1o	c1o	c1o	c1o	c1o	c1o	c1o	c1o		c1o	c1o	c1o
	B2PLYP=FULL	c1o	c1o	c1o	c1o	c1o	c1o	c1o	c1o	c1o	c1o		c1o	c1o	c1o
	B2PLYP=FULLultrafine					c1o								c1o	c1o	c1dnf
Configuration interaction	CID		c1o	c1o	c1o	c1o			c1o
	CISD		c1o	c1o	c1o	c1o			c1o
		STO-3G	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	aug-cc-pVTZ	daug-cc-pVTZ
Quadratic configuration interaction	QCISD		c1o	c1o	c1o	c1o	c1o	c1o	c1o	c1o	c1o		c1o	c1o	c1dnf
	QCISD(T)					c1o
Coupled Cluster	CCD		c1o	c1o	c1o	c1o	c1o	c1o	c1o	c1o	c1o		c1o	c1o	c1dnf
	CCSD					c1o
	CCSD=FULL					c1o							c1dnf	c1o	c1dnf
	CCSD(T)					c1o
	CCSD(T)=FULL					c1o
		STO-3G	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	aug-cc-pVTZ	daug-cc-pVTZ

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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	c1o	c1o	c1o	c1o	c1o	c1o			c1o c2ov
density functional	B3LYP	c1o	c1o	c1o	c1o	c1o	c1o			c1o c2ov
	PBEPBE									c1o c2ov
Moller Plesset perturbation	MP2	c1o	c1o	c1o	c1o	c1o	c1o			c1o c2ov

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.