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

For Se2 (Selenium diatomic)

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 daug-cc-pVDZ daug-cc-pVTZ
Moller Plesset perturbation MP2=FULL -0.000240 -0.006840 -0.020935 -0.022419 -0.065405 -0.065405 -0.066690 -0.756635 -0.756635 -0.191427 -0.844490 -0.138453 -0.018012 -0.096682 -0.166483 -0.021371 -0.104620 -0.168916 -0.096682 -0.022253 -0.107635
MP3=FULL             -0.097187                       -0.082559    
MP4=FULL                                     -0.093221    
B2PLYP=FULL -0.000087 -0.002070 -0.006466 -0.006642 -0.020593 -0.020593 -0.020971 -0.224047 -0.224047 -0.060015 -0.250101 -0.041478 -0.005627 -0.029330   -0.006653 -0.031629   -0.029330 -0.006921 -0.032506
Quadratic configuration interaction QCISD(T)=FULL         -0.063293           -0.783717   -0.016884 -0.089654   -0.020160 -0.096975   -0.089654 -0.021000 -0.099752
Coupled Cluster CCSD=FULL         -0.061535         -0.177193 -0.773556 -0.120025 -0.015958 -0.085949 -0.147520 -0.019049 -0.093231 -0.149767 -0.085949 -0.019852 -0.095988
CCSD(T)=FULL         -0.063255           -0.783320 -0.124017 -0.016872 -0.089471 -0.151929 -0.020129 -0.096781 -0.154174 -0.089471 -0.020969 -0.099555
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 daug-cc-pVDZ daug-cc-pVTZ