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

For CH2CClCHCH2 (1,3-Butadiene, 2-chloro-)

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 -0.001820 -0.011123 -0.018683 -0.008212 -0.029590 -0.030454 -0.031399 -0.123699 -0.124394 -0.051189 -0.184276 -0.095399 -0.016288 -0.096185 -0.018894 -0.111143
B2PLYP=FULL -0.000553 -0.003358 -0.005617 -0.002472 -0.008808 -0.009056 -0.009338 -0.035533 -0.035741 -0.015091 -0.053305 -0.027550 -0.004897 -0.028187 -0.005674 -0.032431
Quadratic configuration interaction QCISD(T)=FULL         -0.028641           -0.186774   -0.014982 -0.097194 -0.017544  
Coupled Cluster CCSD=FULL         -0.028170         -0.048688 -0.184606 -0.097418 -0.014632 -0.095894 -0.017133 -0.111743
CCSD(T)=FULL         -0.055688           -0.186730 -0.098375 -0.014977 -0.097175 -0.017534  
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