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

For C4H10O (1-Butanol)

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 -0.001974 -0.008484 -0.008484 -0.006451 -0.021706 -0.023448 -0.023949 -0.093189 -0.094565 -0.042195 -0.085498 -0.012870 -0.077971 -0.014935 -0.091659
MP3=FULL         -0.021310   -0.023557                
MP4=FULL   -0.008089     -0.021414             -0.012079   -0.014128  
B2PLYP=FULL -0.000596 -0.002525 -0.002525 -0.001919 -0.006405 -0.006902 -0.007049 -0.026589 -0.027001 -0.012227 -0.024432 -0.003815 -0.022557 -0.004426 -0.026443
Coupled Cluster CCSD=FULL         -0.021118           -0.089077 -0.011844 -0.079650   -0.094444
CCSD(T)=FULL         -0.021361           -0.089607        
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