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

For C3H3NO (Oxazole)

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
Moller Plesset perturbation MP2=FULL -0.001582 -0.008640 -0.008640 -0.006283 -0.021076 -0.021588 -0.022415 -0.093657 -0.094151 -0.039521 -0.085511 -0.011991 -0.073474 -0.014237 -0.085886
MP3=FULL         -0.020538   -0.021899       -0.088938 -0.011217 -0.075160    
MP4=FULL   -0.008232     -0.020471       -0.097613     -0.011190 -0.075404 -0.013413 -0.088780
B2PLYP=FULL -0.000476 -0.002572 -0.002572 -0.001867 -0.006225 -0.006371 -0.006614 -0.026694 -0.026843 -0.011492 -0.024400 -0.003554 -0.021309 -0.004221 -0.024821
Coupled Cluster CCSD=FULL         -0.020306           -0.088773 -0.010964 -0.074711    
CCSD(T)=FULL         -0.020543           -0.089324 -0.011124 -0.075328    
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