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

For C3H3N+ (acrylonitrile cation)

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 cc-pVQZ aug-cc-pVDZ aug-cc-pVTZ aug-cc-pVQZ
Moller Plesset perturbation MP2=FULL -0.001404 -0.006525 -0.006525 -0.004994 -0.017774 -0.018277 -0.018748 -0.074076 -0.074500 -0.031409 -0.067613 -0.009306 -0.058885 -0.111734 -0.010730 -0.069388 -0.114244
MP3=FULL         -0.017470   -0.022693                    
MP4=FULL   -0.006250     -0.017505       -0.077669     -0.008734 -0.067976   -0.010144 -0.072111  
B2PLYP=FULL -0.000428 -0.001951 -0.001951 -0.001489 -0.005216 -0.005360 -0.005497 -0.021153 -0.021280 -0.009017 -0.019313 -0.002754 -0.017000   -0.003170 -0.019936  
Coupled Cluster CCSD=FULL                     -0.070430 -0.008456 -0.059730   -0.009823 -0.070925  
CCSD(T)=FULL         -0.017323           -0.070908 -0.008612 -0.060936   -0.009999 -0.071507  
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