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Bond Length differences between FULL (all electrons correlated) and FROZEN core

Such as MP2=Frozen and MP2=Full
17 10 27 16 27

For Li2 atoms 1 and 2

For Li2 (Lithium diatomic)
Bond length differences (full - frozen) in Å. Mouse over a difference for the bond length with full correlation.
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 cc-pVQZ aug-cc-pVDZ aug-cc-pVTZ aug-cc-pVQZ cc-pCVDZ cc-pCVTZ
Moller Plesset perturbation MP2=FULL 0.0043 0.0029 0.0029 0.0045 -0.0142 0.0090 0.0100 0.0003 0.0113 0.0704 0.0041 0.0152 0.0322 0.0741 0.0192 0.0371 0.0700 0.0161 0.0232
MP3=FULL         0.0208   0.0000                        
MP4=FULL   0.0021     0.0088       0.0099     0.0159 0.0332   0.0206 0.0394   0.0148 0.0215
Coupled Cluster CCSD=FULL         0.0083           0.0020 0.0159 0.0307 0.0753 0.0200 0.0375 0.0735 0.0121 0.0179
CCSD(T)=FULL         0.0094           0.0017 0.0165 0.0330 0.0780 0.0209 0.0400 0.0759 0.0131 0.0200
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 cc-pVQZ aug-cc-pVDZ aug-cc-pVTZ aug-cc-pVQZ cc-pCVDZ cc-pCVTZ

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