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

For HDO (Water-d1)

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) 6-311+G(3df,2p) TZVP cc-pVDZ cc-pVTZ cc-pVQZ aug-cc-pVDZ aug-cc-pVTZ aug-cc-pVQZ
Moller Plesset perturbation MP2=FULL -0.000096 -0.001818 -0.001818 -0.001036 -0.002396 -0.002663 -0.002778 -0.018702 -0.018924 -0.006992 -0.022753 -0.017167 -0.002323 -0.013603 -0.030490 -0.002475 -0.015156 -0.030857
MP3=FULL         -0.002167   -0.002549       -0.023219 -0.017549 -0.002120 -0.013546        
MP4=FULL   -0.001675     -0.002184       -0.019207   -0.023292   -0.002110 -0.013592   -0.002261 -0.015223  
B2PLYP=FULL -0.000028 -0.000528 -0.000528 -0.000300 -0.000693 -0.000769 -0.000802 -0.005261 -0.005326 -0.002001 -0.006429 -0.004837 -0.000671 -0.003901   -0.000716 -0.004337  
Quadratic configuration interaction QCISD(T)=FULL         -0.002174   -0.002545       -0.023261   -0.002100 -0.013563   -0.002249 -0.015201  
QCISD(TQ)=FULL         -0.002173   -0.002543       -0.023267   -0.002098 -0.013565 -0.031294 -0.002247 -0.015207 -0.031563
Coupled Cluster CCSD=FULL         -0.002150         -0.006884 -0.023097 -0.017507 -0.002080 -0.013454 -0.031052 -0.002226 -0.015096 -0.031424
CCSD(T)=FULL         -0.002173           -0.023263 -0.017581 -0.002100 -0.013566 -0.031292 -0.002249 -0.015205 -0.031671
STO-3G 3-21G 3-21G* 6-31G 6-31G* 6-31G** 6-31+G** 6-311G* 6-311G** 6-31G(2df,p) 6-311+G(3df,2p) TZVP cc-pVDZ cc-pVTZ cc-pVQZ aug-cc-pVDZ aug-cc-pVTZ aug-cc-pVQZ