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Energy differences between frozen core and all electrons correlated.
MP2, MP3, MP4, B2PLYP, CCSD, and CCSD(T)

For SiF- (silicon monofluoride anion)

Energies in Hartree
Methods with standard basis sets
STO-3G 3-21G 3-21G* 6-31G 6-31G* 6-31G** 6-31+G** 6-311G* 6-311G** 6-31G(2df,p) TZVP cc-pVDZ cc-pVTZ cc-pVQZ aug-cc-pVDZ aug-cc-pVTZ aug-cc-pVQZ
Moller Plesset perturbation MP2=FULL -0.001365 -0.007659 -0.014547 -0.004835 -0.012911 -0.012911 -0.014452 -0.142876 -0.142876 -0.025665 -0.049772 -0.008049 -0.067403 -0.073808 -0.009329 -0.070846 -0.075767
MP3=FULL         -0.012498   -0.052054                    
MP4=FULL   -0.007344     -0.012675       -0.143505     -0.007666 -0.068444   -0.008987 -0.071927  
Coupled Cluster CCSD=FULL         -0.012374           -0.050019 -0.007457 -0.067128 -0.074515 -0.008731 -0.070600 -0.076422
CCSD(T)=FULL         -0.012626           -0.050699 -0.007642 -0.068312 -0.075705 -0.008958 -0.071804 -0.077646
STO-3G 3-21G 3-21G* 6-31G 6-31G* 6-31G** 6-31+G** 6-311G* 6-311G** 6-31G(2df,p) TZVP cc-pVDZ cc-pVTZ cc-pVQZ aug-cc-pVDZ aug-cc-pVTZ aug-cc-pVQZ