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

For C4H9SH (1-Butanethiol)

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 aug-cc-pVDZ aug-cc-pVTZ
Moller Plesset perturbation MP2=FULL -0.002493 -0.011928 -0.019695 -0.008625 -0.029917 -0.031924 -0.032782 -0.194807 -0.196308 -0.056468 -0.255095 -0.097190 -0.017840 -0.100617 -0.021059 -0.116841
MP3=FULL         -0.028948   -0.031780       -0.255588 -0.099582 -0.016514 -0.101204    
MP4=FULL   -0.011316     -0.029209               -0.016668   -0.019887  
B2PLYP=FULL -0.000764 -0.003614 -0.005957 -0.002604 -0.008923 -0.009497 -0.009756 -0.056001 -0.056449 -0.016613 -0.073700 -0.028140 -0.005369 -0.029500 -0.006330 -0.034109
Quadratic configuration interaction QCISD(T)=FULL         -0.029124               -0.016578   -0.019771  
Coupled Cluster CCSD=FULL         -0.028660         -0.054806 -0.255179 -0.099451 -0.016212 -0.100874 -0.019335  
CCSD(T)=FULL         -0.029128             -0.100442 -0.016575   -0.019763  
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 aug-cc-pVDZ aug-cc-pVTZ