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

For CH2ClCHCHCH3 (2-Butene, 1-chloro-)


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 -0.001880 -0.011056 -0.018548 -0.008103 -0.029223 -0.030482 -0.031405 -0.123484 -0.124536 -0.052845 -0.095476 -0.016488 -0.097235 -0.019400 -0.112161
MP3=FULL         -0.028104   -0.030265       -0.097618 -0.015089 -0.097340    
MP4=FULL   -0.010468     -0.028390       -0.127889     -0.015260 -0.098588 -0.018067 -0.114569
B2PLYP=FULL -0.000571 -0.003336 -0.005573 -0.002437 -0.008692 -0.009053 -0.009329 -0.035462 -0.035776 -0.015539 -0.027569 -0.004951 -0.028466 -0.005816 -0.032699
Coupled Cluster CCSD=FULL         -0.027854           -0.097526 -0.014832 -0.097034 -0.017622  
CCSD(T)=FULL         -0.028306           -0.098454 -0.015169 -0.048369 -0.046895 -0.070907
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