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. 2016 Jan 15;12(3):1097–1120. doi: 10.1021/acs.jctc.5b01047

Table 3. Mean Absolute Errors in Calculated Heats of Formation (kcal/mol), Relative Energies (kcal/mol), Ionization Potentials (eV), Barriers (kcal/mol), Bond Lengths (Å), and Bond Angles (deg) for the OVS7-CHNOF Benchmark Set: MNDO, AM1, PMx, and OMx.

    method
subset N MNDO AM1 PM3 PM6 PM7 OM1 OM2 OM3
Heats of Formation
radicals71 42 11.86 10.60 10.94 11.13 10.04 7.28 4.98 5.57
anions24 24 14.41 11.29 9.59 11.43 10.65 11.55 8.37 9.56
cations41 36 11.52 9.96 11.45 11.12 12.07 9.32 6.93 6.89
BIGMOL20 20 9.20 12.11 8.25 9.43 8.57 10.45 4.85 5.05
conformers30 11 3.14 6.48 2.72 3.40 2.40 1.83 2.95 3.05
isomers44 27 6.41 4.40 2.92 2.92 2.05 3.32 1.05 1.81
fluorine91 91 11.13 11.05 7.76 9.04 8.17 7.17 7.15 7.34
Relative Energies
radicals71 4 13.00 10.09 9.94 11.78 10.61 8.74 3.95 5.46
cations41 5 13.20 9.30 9.02 20.97 10.96 5.65 3.68 3.53
isomers44 17 8.04 5.59 3.22 1.81 1.70 5.67 0.80 2.07
Ionization Potentials
radicals71 25 0.88 0.73 0.84 0.79 0.80 0.38 0.37 0.53
Barriers
conformers30 19 2.38 2.00 2.17 2.65 2.46 1.50 1.26 1.34
Bond Lengths
fluorine91 455 0.027 0.022 0.015 0.017 0.021 0.015 0.016 0.022
Bond Angles
fluorine91 355 3.41 3.28 2.94 3.68 3.17 1.97 2.04 1.78