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

For C3H3NS (Thiazole)

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 aug-cc-pVDZ aug-cc-pVTZ daug-cc-pVDZ daug-cc-pVTZ
Moller Plesset perturbation MP2=FULL -0.002229 -0.012139 -0.020057 -0.008538 -0.029581 -0.030101 -0.031260 -0.195411 -0.195891 -0.056302 -0.255972 -0.097373 -0.017010 -0.096699 -0.019948 -0.111158 -0.020674 -0.114544
MP4=FULL   -0.011526     -0.028685           -0.258815   -0.015818 -0.098061 -0.018751      
B2PLYP=FULL -0.000693 -0.003677 -0.006066 -0.002578 -0.008827 -0.008975 -0.009323 -0.056145 -0.056290 -0.016608 -0.073929 -0.028157 -0.005124 -0.028415 -0.006002 -0.032531 -0.006220 -0.033500
Quadratic configuration interaction QCISD(T)=FULL         -0.028524               -0.015682 -0.097731 -0.018586      
Coupled Cluster CCSD=FULL         -0.028040         -0.054177 -0.255580 -0.099256 -0.015314 -0.096393 -0.018170 -0.111711    
CCSD(T)=FULL         -0.028530           -0.266785 -0.100292 -0.015681 -0.097724 -0.018582      
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 aug-cc-pVDZ aug-cc-pVTZ daug-cc-pVDZ daug-cc-pVTZ