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

For CN2 (3H-Diazirin-3-ylidene)

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 -0.000697 -0.005016 -0.005016 -0.003468 -0.010703 -0.010703 -0.011338 -0.055301 -0.055301 -0.022033 -0.050485 -0.006126 -0.037898 -0.083027 -0.007089 -0.044670 -0.084365
MP3=FULL         -0.010315   -0.010952       -0.052419 -0.005657 -0.038608        
MP4=FULL   -0.004676     -0.010214       -0.057024     -0.005541 -0.038360   -0.006484 -0.045603  
Coupled Cluster CCSD=FULL         -0.010076           -0.052177 -0.005434 -0.038120 -0.085576 -0.006372 -0.045499 -0.086974
CCSD(T)=FULL         -0.010193           -0.052509 -0.005509 -0.038404 -0.086427 -0.006454 -0.045714 -0.087832
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