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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2020 Nov 13.
Published in final edited form as: J Chem Theory Comput. 2018 Oct 5;14(11):5920–5932. doi: 10.1021/acs.jctc.8b00593

Table 5:

Canonical ZPVEs and their deviations from scaled harmonic approximationa,b,c

compound ZPVE(can)/
kJ·mol−1
Ref. ΔEZPVE = (ZPVE(can) - ZPVE(calc))/kJ·mol−1
I II III IV V VI VII
methane 116.1 32 −0.2 −0.3 −0.3 0.3 0.0 −0.2 −0.8
ethane 193.7 32 −0.3 −0.6 −0.6 0.4 0.4 0.1 −0.6
propane 267.9d 32 0.0 −0.5 −0.5 0.8 1.0 0.5 −0.7
ethylene 132.2 32 0.1 0.0 0.1 0.3 0.0 −0.2 0.3
ethyne 68.9 32 0.8 1.3 1.3 0.1 0.1 0.4 1.4
benzene 260.0d 25 0.2 0.7 0.8 −0.7 −0.7 0.0 0.6
H2 26.0 31 0.2 0.1 0.1 0.4 0.2 0.1 −0.2
water 55.5 32 −0.5 −0.2 −0.2 −0.4 −0.4 0.0 −0.1
carbon dioxide 30.3 32 0.1 0.0 0.0 −0.4 −0.4 −0.4 0.5
methanal 69.2 32 −0.2 −0.3 −0.3 −0.1 −0.2 −0.3 0.3
furan 181.6d 32 −0.2 0.0 −0.2 −0.6 −0.5 −0.5 1.0
N2 14.1 31 0.5 0.4 0.4 −0.2 −0.3 −0.4 −0.1
ammonia 89.2 32 −0.4 −0.3 −0.5 −0.2 −0.3 −0.1 −0.9
HCN 41.6 31 0.3 0.9 0.8 0.2 0.1 0.0 −0.3
N2O 28.5 32 0.6 0.5 0.5 −0.4 −0.3 −0.3 −0.1
standard deviation 0.4 0.6 0.6 0.4 0.4 0.3 0.7
a

unless specified, canonical ZPVEs are derived from experimental data

b

theory level labels (Roman numerals) are defined in Table 4

c

ZPVE(calc) was scaled using values from Table 4

d

high-level ab initio result