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NIST Standard Reference Database 101

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III.F.2.

Completed calculations for CH₃COCH₂CH₃ (2-Butanone)

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	PM3	c1o c2ov
composite	G1	c1e
	G2MP2	c1e
	G2	c1e c2e
	G3	c1e
	G3B3	c1e
	G3MP2	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-pVDZ	aug-cc-pVTZ	cc-pV(T+d)Z	daug-cc-pVTZ
hartree fock	HF	c1ov	c1ov	c1ov	c1ov	c1ov	c1ov	c1ov c2ov	c2ov	c2ov	c2ov	c1ov	c1o c2ov	c1ov	c1ov	c2ov	c2ov	c1ov	c1ov c2ov
density functional	BLYP	c2ov	c2ov	c2ov	c2ov	c1o	c2ov	c2ov	c2ov	c2ov	c2ov			c2ov	c2ov	c2ov		c2ov
	B1B95	c2ov	c2ov	c2ov	c2ov	c2ov	c2ov	c2ov	c2ov	c2ov	c2ov			c2ov	c2ov	c2ov	c1o	c2ov
	B3LYP	c2ov	c2ov	c2ov	c2ov	c2ov	c2ov	c2ov	c2ov	c2ov	c1o	c2ov	c1o c2ov	c2ov	c2ov	c2ov	c1o	c2ov
	B3LYPultrafine					c2ov									c1ov		c1o
	B3PW91	c2ov	c2ov	c2ov	c2ov	c2ov	c2ov	c2ov	c2ov	c2ov	c2ov			c2ov	c2ov	c2ov		c2ov
	mPW1PW91	c2ov	c2ov	c2ov	c2ov	c2ov	c2ov	c2ov	c2ov	c2ov	c2ov			c2ov	c2ov	c2ov		c2ov
	M06-2X			c1o c2ov		c1o						c1o
	PBEPBE	c2ov	c2ov					c2ov	c2ov	c2ov		c1ov c2ov			c2ov			c2ov
	PBEPBEultrafine					c1ov
	PBE1PBE					c1o
	HSEh1PBE		c1o			c1o		c1o							c1o
	TPSSh					c1o		c1o			c1ov c2ov				c1o
	wB97X-D			c1o c2o		c1o c2o		c1o c2o		c1o c2o			c1o c2o	c1o c2o	c1o c2o		c1o c2o
	B97D3		c1o c2o			c1o c2o		c1o c2o		c1o c2o		c1o c2o	c1o c2o		c1o c2o		c1o c2o		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-pVDZ	aug-cc-pVTZ	cc-pV(T+d)Z	daug-cc-pVTZ
Moller Plesset perturbation	MP2	c1ov	c1ov	c1ov	c1ov	c1ov c2ov	c1ov	c2ov	c1o c2o	c2ov	c1ov		c1o c2ov	c1ov	c1o c2ov	c2ov	c1o	c2ov
	MP2=FULL		c2ov	c2ov	c2ov	c1ov c2ov	c2ov	c2ov	c2ov	c2ov				c2ov	c1ov c2ov			c2ov
	MP3					c2ov		c1o
	MP3=FULL					c1ov		c1o
	MP4					c2o
	B2PLYP					c1ov									c1o
	B2PLYP=FULLultrafine					c1ov								c1ov	c1ov		c1o
Configuration interaction	CID					c2ov
	CISD					c2ov
		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-pVDZ	aug-cc-pVTZ	cc-pV(T+d)Z	daug-cc-pVTZ
Quadratic configuration interaction	QCISD		c2ov	c2ov	c2ov	c2ov	c2ov		c2ov	c2ov				c2ov
Coupled Cluster	CCD		c2ov	c2ov	c2ov	c1ov c2ov	c2ov		c2ov					c2ov
		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-pVDZ	aug-cc-pVTZ	cc-pV(T+d)Z	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	c2ov	c2ov	c2ov	c2ov	c2ov	c2ov			c1ov c2ov
density functional	B1B95	c2ov
	B3LYP	c2ov	c2ov	c2ov	c2ov	c2ov	c2ov			c1o c2ov
	PBEPBE									c1o c2o
Moller Plesset perturbation	MP2	c2ov	c2ov	c2ov	c2ov	c2ov	c2ov			c1o c2o

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Single point energy calculations (select basis sets)

		6-311+G(3df,2p)	cc-pVDZ	aug-cc-pVDZ	aug-cc-pVTZ
Moller Plesset perturbation	MP2FC// HF/6-31G*	c1e	c1e
	MP2FC// MP2FC/6-31G*			c1e	c1e
Coupled Cluster	CCSD(T)// HF/6-31G*		c1e
	CCSD// MP2FC/6-31G*				c1e
	CCSD(T)// MP2FC/6-31G*	c1e			c1e

Barriers to internal rotation or inversion

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Methods with predefined basis sets

semi-empirical	AM1	s1c1t1
	PM3	s1c1t1

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Methods with standard basis sets

		3-21G	6-31G*	6-31+G**	cc-pVTZ
hartree fock	HF	s1c1t1	s1c1t1	s1c1t1	s1c1t1
density functional	B3LYP	s1c1t1	s1c1t1	s1c1t1
		3-21G	6-31G*	6-31+G**	cc-pVTZ
Moller Plesset perturbation	MP2	s1c1t1	s1c1t1	s1c1t1
		3-21G	6-31G*	6-31+G**	cc-pVTZ

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.