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Calculated Proton Affinity

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Name Species   Species Name
Acetyl anion CH3CO- C2H4O Ethylene oxide

Bonding changes

Bond type H-C changed by +1
Bond type C=O lost 1
Bond type C-O gained 2
Proton Affinities (kJ/mol)
Proton Affinities in kJ/mol
Methods with predefined basis sets
composite G3B3 1529
G4 1480

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-pVTZ daug-cc-pVTZ
hartree fock HF     1605           1551       1540
density functional BLYP     1609                    
B3LYP             1619   1535     1509  
M06-2X   1619 1621                    
PBE1PBE     1633                    
HSEh1PBE 1624   1632 1535             1576    
TPSSh     1638 1545     1641       1585    
wB97X-D   1619 1627 1428   1581     1556 1418 1471 1537  
B97D3 1611   1623 1518   1570   1521 1544   1564 1511  
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-pVTZ daug-cc-pVTZ
Moller Plesset perturbation MP2     1621   1568       1557        
MP2=FULL                       1533  
MP3       1558                  
MP3=FULL     1626 1547                  
B2PLYP     1616               1558    
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-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                 1558
density functional B3LYP                 1542
PBEPBE                 1548
Moller Plesset perturbation MP2                 1561
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.