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Table 1

Benchmark on interactions and reactivity relevant for this work.

Interactions CH3–CO CH3–(H2O)3
Case 1 Case 2 Case 1 Case2
Method Eb Eb Eb Eb

B3LYP-D4 −6.0 −3.8 −9.0 −5.7
BHLYP-D4 −10.9 −9.2 −7.9 −5.3
M062X-D3 −11.6 −7.4 −11.5 −14.0
MPWB1K-D3BJ −10.1 −8.1 −7.7 −6.5
M08HX-D3 −9.1 −6.4 −8.6 −10.0
M05X-D3 −11.0 −7.5 −11.7 −11.5
PW6B95-D4 −8.2 −6.0 −9.0 −8.1
RSCAN-D3BJ −6.4 −3.2 −9.5 −8.6
wB97M-D3BJ −6.4 −4.1 −8.6 −7.9
wB97M-V −6.1 −4.1 −8.1 −6.9
wB97X-D4 −5.9 −3.7 −8.3 −6.8

CCSDt-F12/AVZ −3.1 −1.8 −8.0 −5.9


Formation of: CH3CN on a (H2O)3 CH3NC on a (H2O)3 CN + H2O →HOCNH

Method ΔEa ΔEa ΔEa

B3LYP-D4 3.1 3.7 35.3
BHLYP-D4 3.5 17.6 41.5
M062X-D3 1.9 13.1 26.5
MPWB1K-D3BJ 3.6 12.9 33.8
M08HX-D3 3.2 12.4 39.1
M05X-D3 3.7 77.2 23.8
PW6B95-D4 3.3 45.7 37.1
RSCAN-D3BJ 3.4 3.8 19.8
wB97M-D3BJ 3.4 10.0 38.3
wB97M-V 3.4 10.4 34.7
wB97X-D4 3.4 14.0 35.5

CCSDt-F12/AVZ 43.8
CASPT2/AVZ* 3.5 4.1
CASPT2/AVZ 3.4 2.8
NEVPT2/AVZ 3.6 2.7

Notes. The terms wHt and AVZ stand for water-assisted H transfer and AUG-CC-PVTZ, respectively. Energy units are in kJ mol−1 . The def2-PVTZD basis set was used for all DFT-D calculations. More data can be found in Sect. A. (*)OPENMOLCAS CASPT2(15e,24o)/AVTZ (see appendix). (†)MOLPRO CASPT2/NEVTP2(12e,10o)/AVTZ (see appendix).

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