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

For SiH3CCl3 ((trichloromethyl)silane)

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 aug-cc-pVDZ aug-cc-pVTZ cc-pV(T+d)Z aug-cc-pV(T+d)Z
Moller Plesset perturbation MP2=FULL -0.004213 -0.021006 -0.050441 -0.013844 -0.046396 -0.047326 -0.050225 -0.290294 -0.291013 -0.092946 -0.132531 -0.028886 -0.176889 -0.036105 -0.193513 -0.440573 -0.456895
MP3=FULL         -0.043278   -0.047020       -0.129836 -0.025868 -0.171158     -0.431306 -0.447917
MP4=FULL   -0.019726     -0.044212       -0.292033     -0.026672 -0.175311 -0.033896      
B2PLYP=FULL -0.001372 -0.006465 -0.015337 -0.004252 -0.014029 -0.014302 -0.015178 -0.084238 -0.084455 -0.027824 -0.039084 -0.008831 -0.052725 -0.011001 -0.057438 -0.129142 -0.133740
Coupled Cluster CCSD=FULL         -0.042972           -0.129785 -0.025647 -0.171142 -0.032587   -0.431241 -0.447815
CCSD(T)=FULL         -0.043998           -0.131986 -0.026490 -0.174568 -0.033615 -0.142440 -0.436838 -0.401040
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 aug-cc-pVDZ aug-cc-pVTZ cc-pV(T+d)Z aug-cc-pV(T+d)Z