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

For NCl3 (nitrogen trichloride)

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) 6-311+G(3df,2p) TZVP cc-pVDZ cc-pVTZ cc-pVQZ aug-cc-pVDZ aug-cc-pVTZ aug-cc-pVQZ cc-pV(T+d)Z
Moller Plesset perturbation MP2=FULL -0.000371 -0.015088 -0.037554 -0.009483 -0.033887 -0.033887 -0.035954 -0.166311 -0.166311 -0.070720 -0.309393 -0.099038 -0.020468 -0.113600 -0.217070 -0.024435 -0.122413 -0.220573 -0.326832
MP3=FULL         -0.031041   -0.044464       -0.301340 -0.096350 -0.017910 -0.108111          
MP4=FULL   -0.013915     -0.031475       -0.166353   -0.305462   -0.018307 -0.110361   -0.022233 -0.119339    
B2PLYP=FULL -0.000114 -0.004563 -0.011284 -0.002857 -0.010128 -0.010128 -0.010744 -0.047840 -0.047840 -0.020971 -0.089669 -0.028891 -0.006178 -0.033660   -0.007359 -0.036163    
Quadratic configuration interaction QCISD(T)=FULL         -0.031274           -0.304409   -0.018168 -0.109800   -0.022028      
Coupled Cluster CCSD=FULL         -0.030596         -0.063892 -0.300670 -0.095891 -0.017597 -0.107527   -0.021340 -0.116448    
CCSD(T)=FULL         15.863478           -0.304355 -0.097400 -0.018165 -0.109770   -0.022011      
STO-3G 3-21G 3-21G* 6-31G 6-31G* 6-31G** 6-31+G** 6-311G* 6-311G** 6-31G(2df,p) 6-311+G(3df,2p) TZVP cc-pVDZ cc-pVTZ cc-pVQZ aug-cc-pVDZ aug-cc-pVTZ aug-cc-pVQZ cc-pV(T+d)Z