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

For CH2ClCH2Cl (Ethane, 1,2-dichloro-)

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 -0.001026 -0.012084 -0.027053 -0.008103 -0.029620 -0.030366 -0.031650 -0.135342 -0.136060 -0.058152 -0.088724 -0.017432 -0.099284 -0.020847 -0.111413
MP3=FULL         -0.027689   -0.029669       -0.088104 -0.015488 -0.096378    
MP4=FULL   -0.011303     -0.028128       -0.137539     -0.015855 -0.098259 -0.019250  
B2PLYP=FULL -0.000312 -0.003662 -0.008133 -0.002450 -0.008843 -0.009057 -0.009443 -0.038953 -0.039152 -0.017184 -0.025816 -0.005256 -0.029277 -0.006274 -0.032718
Quadratic configuration interaction QCISD(T)=FULL         -0.028031             -0.015768 -0.097931 -0.019115  
Coupled Cluster CCSD=FULL         -0.027470           -0.088016 -0.015312 -0.096159 -0.018557  
CCSD(T)=FULL         -0.028023           -0.089163 -0.015757 -0.097888 -0.019093  
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