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

For CH3NNCH3 ((E)-1,2-Dimethyldiazene)

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 -0.001270 -0.006794 -0.006794 -0.004947 -0.016090 -0.017175 -0.017799 -0.074408 -0.075271 -0.033320 -0.068419 -0.009940 -0.059532 -0.011458 -0.070439
MP3=FULL         -0.015670   -0.017385                
MP4=FULL   -0.006455     -0.015671       -0.078077     -0.009265 -0.061205 -0.010772 -0.072998
B2PLYP=FULL -0.000383 -0.002021 -0.002021 -0.001469 -0.004752 -0.005063 -0.005246 -0.021212 -0.021472 -0.009672 -0.019530 -0.002950 -0.017275 -0.003401 -0.020366
Coupled Cluster CCSD=FULL         -0.015459           -0.071056 -0.009085 -0.060615 -0.010568 -0.072397
CCSD(T)=FULL         -0.015637           -0.071505 -0.009217 -0.061129 -0.010717 -0.072931
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