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Calculated Proton Affinity

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Name Species   Species Name
Nitrogen atom N NH+ imidogen cation

Bonding changes

Bond type H-N gained 1
Proton Affinities (kJ/mol)
Proton Affinities in kJ/mol
Methods with predefined basis sets
semi-empirical PM3  
composite G4 348

Proton Affinities in kJ/mol
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-pVDZ aug-cc-pVTZ daug-cc-pVTZ
hartree fock HF     246           260         624
ROHF     243                      
density functional BLYP     450                      
B3LYP                 343          
B3LYPultrafine                         348  
M06-2X   600 318                      
PBE1PBE     317                      
HSEh1PBE 608   318 615             624      
TPSSh     337 339     640       350      
wB97X-D   607 621 617   629     624 617 629   625  
B97D3 627   473 473   483   477 477   480   477  
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-pVDZ aug-cc-pVTZ daug-cc-pVTZ
Moller Plesset perturbation MP2     614   614       303          
MP2=FULL                       294    
MP3                            
MP3=FULL     290 309                    
MP4                     329      
B2PLYP     321               340      
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-pVDZ aug-cc-pVTZ daug-cc-pVTZ

Proton Affinities in kJ/mol
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                 625
density functional B3LYP                 615
PBEPBE                 443
Moller Plesset perturbation MP2                 626
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.