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

For C5H8O (Methyl cyclopropyl ketone)

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
Moller Plesset perturbation MP2=FULL -0.002417 -0.010237 -0.010237 -0.007888 -0.027128 -0.028591 -0.029262 -0.112324 -0.113495 -0.050415 -0.102627 -0.015208 -0.092525 -0.018053
MP3=FULL         -0.026646   -0.028789       -0.107081 -0.014277 -0.094984  
MP4=FULL   -0.009776     -0.026775       -0.118110     -0.014262 -0.095461 -0.017082
B2PLYP=FULL -0.000731 -0.003054 -0.003054 -0.002351 -0.008009 -0.008428 -0.008626 -0.032082 -0.032432 -0.014643 -0.029349 -0.004519 -0.026811 -0.005359
Quadratic configuration interaction QCISD(T)=FULL         -0.026689             -0.014174 -0.094406 -0.016982
Coupled Cluster CCSD=FULL         -0.026393           -0.106952 -0.013973 -0.094523 -0.016752
CCSD(T)=FULL         -0.026700           -0.107614 -0.014177   0.020554
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