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III.F.2.

Completed calculations for CH₄⁺ (Methane cation)

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	c2o
	PM3	c1o c2o c3ov
composite	G1	c1e c3e
	G2MP2	c1e c3e
	G2	c1e c3e
	G3	c1e c3e
	G3B3	c1e c3e
	G3MP2	c2e
	G4	c1e c2e
	CBS-Q	c1e c3e

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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	cc-pVQZ	aug-cc-pVDZ	aug-cc-pVTZ	aug-cc-pVQZ	daug-cc-pVTZ
hartree fock	HF	c2o c3ov	c2o c3ov	c2o c3ov	c2o c3ov	c1ov c2ov	c2o c3o	c2o c3o	c2o c3o	c2ov c3o	c2o c3o		c1ov	c2o c3o	c2o c3o	c2o c3o	c2o c3o	c2o c3o	c2o c3o	c1ov c2o c3o
density functional	BLYP	c2o c3ov	c2o c3ov	c2o c3ov	c2o c3ov	c1o c2ov c3ov	c2o c3ov	c2o c3ov	c2o c3ov	c2o c3ov	c2o c3ov			c2o c3ov	c2o c3ov
	B1B95	c2o c3ov	c2o c3ov	c2o c3ov	c2o c3ov	c2o c3ov	c2o c3ov	c2o c3ov	c2o c3ov	c2o c3ov	c2o c3ov			c2o c3ov	c2o c3ov	c2o c3ov	c2o c3ov	c2o
	B3LYP	c2o c3ov	c2o c3ov	c2o c3ov	c2o c3ov	c2o	c2o c3ov	c2o c3ov	c2o c3ov	c2o c3ov	c2o c3ov		c1o	c2o c3ov	c2o c3ov	c2o c3ov	c2o c3ov	c2o c3ov	c2o c3ov
	B3LYPultrafine					c2o c3ov												c1o
	B3PW91	c2o c3ov	c2o c3ov	c2o c3ov	c2o c3ov	c2o c3ov	c2o c3ov	c2o c3ov	c2o c3ov	c2o c3ov	c2o c3ov			c2o c3ov	c2o c3ov
	mPW1PW91	c2o c3ov	c2o c3ov	c2o c3ov	c2o c3ov	c2o c3ov	c2o c3ov	c2o c3ov	c2o c3ov	c2o c3ov	c2o c3ov			c2o c3ov	c2o c3ov
	M06-2X			c1o c2ov c3ov		c1o						c1ov
	PBEPBE	c2o c3ov	c2o c3ov	c2o c3ov	c2o c3ov	c2o c3ov	c2o c3ov	c2o c3ov	c2o c3ov	c2o c3ov	c2o c3ov			c2o c3ov	c2o c3ov	c2o c3ov			c2o c3ov
	PBE1PBE					c1o
	HSEh1PBE		c1o			c1o		c1o							c1o
	TPSSh					c1o c2ov		c1ov c2ov			c1ov c2ov				c1ov c2ov
	wB97X-D			c1o c2ov c3ov		c1o c2ov c3ov		c1o c2ov c3ov		c1o c2ov c3ov			c1o c2ov c3ov	c1o c2ov c3ov	c1o c2ov c3ov			c1o c2ov c3ov
	B97D3		c1o c2ov c3ov			c1o c2ov c3ov		c1o c2ov c3ov		c1o c2ov c3ov		c1o c2ov c3ov	c1o c2ov c3ov		c1o c2ov c3ov			c1o c2ov c3ov		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	cc-pVQZ	aug-cc-pVDZ	aug-cc-pVTZ	aug-cc-pVQZ	daug-cc-pVTZ
Moller Plesset perturbation	MP2	c2o c3ov	c2o c3ov	c2o c3ov	c2o c3ov	c1ov c2ov c3ov	c2o c3o	c2o c3o	c1ov c2ov c3ov	c2o c3o	c2o c3ov		c1ov	c2o c3o	c2o c3o	c2o c3o	c2o c3o	c2o c3o	c2o c3o
	MP2=FULL	c2o c3ov	c2o c3ov	c2o c3ov	c2o c3ov	c2o c3ov	c2o c3o	c2o c3o	c2o c3ov	c2o c3o	c2o c3ov			c2o c3o	c2o c3o	c2o c3o			c2o c3o
	MP3					c2o c3ov		c1ov c2o
	MP3=FULL					c1ov c2ov		c1ov c2o
	MP4		c2o c3ov			c2o c3ov				c2o c3o
	B2PLYP					c1o									c1ov c2ov
	B2PLYP=FULLultrafine					c1o								c1ov	c1ov			c1ov
Configuration interaction	CID		c2o c3ov	c2o c3ov	c2o c3ov	c2o c3ov			c2o c3ov
	CISD		c2o c3ov	c2o c3ov	c2o c3ov	c2o c3ov			c2o c3ov
		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	cc-pVQZ	aug-cc-pVDZ	aug-cc-pVTZ	aug-cc-pVQZ	daug-cc-pVTZ
Quadratic configuration interaction	QCISD		c2o c3ov	c2o c3ov	c2o c3ov	c2o c3ov	c2o c3o	c2o c3o	c2o c3ov	c2o c3o	c2o c3o			c2o c3o	c2o c3o
	QCISD(T)					c2o c3ov								c2o c3o	c2o c3o		c2o c3o	c2o c3o
Coupled Cluster	CCD		c2o c3ov	c2o c3ov	c2o c3ov	c2o c3ov	c2o c3o	c2o c3o	c2o c3ov	c2o c3o	c2o c3ov			c2o c3o	c2o c3o		c2o c3o	c2o c3o
	CCSD					c2o c3ov
	CCSD(T)													c2o c3o	c2o c3o		c2o c3o	c2o c3o
	CCSD(T)=FULL					c2o c3ov								c2o c3o	c2o c3o		c2o c3o	c2o c3o
		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	cc-pVQZ	aug-cc-pVDZ	aug-cc-pVTZ	aug-cc-pVQZ	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	c2o c3ov	c2o c3o	c2o c3ov	c2o c3o	c2o c3ov	c2o c3ov			c1ov c2o c3o
density functional	B3LYP	c2o c3ov	c2o c3ov	c2o	c2o c3ov	c2o c3ov	c2o c3ov			c1o c2ov c3ov
	PBEPBE									c1o c2ov c3ov
Moller Plesset perturbation	MP2	c2o c3ov	c2o c3ov	c2o c3ov	c2o c3ov	c2o c3ov	c2o c3ov			c1ov c2o c3o

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Single point energy calculations (select basis sets)

		cc-pVTZ	aug-cc-pVTZ
Moller Plesset perturbation	MP2FC// B3LYP/6-31G*	c1e
	MP2FC// MP2FC/6-31G*		c3e
Coupled Cluster	CCSD(T)// B3LYP/6-31G*	c1e
	CCSD// MP2FC/6-31G*		c3e
	CCSD(T)// MP2FC/6-31G*		c3e

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.