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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2012 Dec 10.
Published in final edited form as: J Chem Theory Comput. 2011 Mar 3;7(4):852–856. doi: 10.1021/ct1006373

Table 1. Polarizabilities (Å3).

Molecule α (A3) Ref.
H2O 1.45 12b
CH4 2.59 19
HCN 2.59 13
HCl 2.63 13
(H2O)2 2.88 a
CO2 2.91 16
CH3OH 3.23 12a
CHCH 3.33 13
CH3NH2 4.01 14
CH2CH2 4.25 17
CH3CH3 4.48 13
CH3CN 4.48 18
CH3CHO 4.59 18
CH3Cl 4.72 15
CH2CHOH 4.85 a
CH3CH2OH 5.11 18
CH3OCH3 5.16 12a
CH3SH 5.49 a
CH3C(O)NH2 5.67 18
CHCCH3 6.18 12b
CH2CHCH3 6.26 12b
CH3C(O)CH3 6.33 12a
CH3CH2CH3 6.38 12b
H2NCH2COOH 6.52 a
CH3C(O)Cl 6.62 12b
CH3CHOHCH3 7.61 12b
CH3SCH3 7.39 a
pyrimidine 8.53 20
s-trans-butadiene 8.64 12b
pyridine 9.18 21
diethyl amine 9.61 21
benzene 10.32 13
phenol 11.10 12b
toluene 12.26 12a
nicotinamide 12.19 b
purine 12.78 c
benzaldehyde 12.80 c
benzyl alcohol 13.15 c
a

present work, calculated by MP2/aug-cc-pVTZ//MP2/aug-cc-pVDZ.

b

present work, calculated by HF/aug-cc-pVDZ.

c

present work, calculated by MP2/aug-cc-pVDZ.