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

For H3O+ (hydronium 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 cc-pV(T+d)Z
Moller Plesset perturbation MP2=FULL -0.000132 -0.001904 -0.001904 -0.001089 -0.002504 -0.002862 -0.002918 -0.018827 -0.019133 -0.007267 -0.017328 -0.002442 -0.127400 -0.031005 -0.002629 -0.016159 -0.031424 -0.014449
MP3=FULL         -0.002277   -0.004558       -0.017715 -0.002243 -0.014447          
MP4=FULL   -0.001761     -0.002297       -0.019426     -0.002233 -0.014483   -0.002415 -0.016291    
B2PLYP=FULL -0.000038 -0.000555 -0.000555 -0.000316 -0.000724 -0.000827 -0.000843 -0.005299 -0.005389 -0.002082 -0.004886 -0.000706 -0.004142   -0.000761 -0.004623    
Quadratic configuration interaction QCISD(T)=FULL         -0.002284             -0.002223 -0.014456   -0.002404 -0.016265    
QCISD(TQ)=FULL         -0.002282   -0.002691         -0.002221 -0.014458 -0.031836 -0.002402 -0.016268    
Coupled Cluster CCSD=FULL         -0.002259         -0.007176 -0.017674 -0.002202 -0.014353 -0.031604 -0.002381 -0.016163 -0.032034  
CCSD(T)=FULL         -0.002283           -0.017748 -0.002223 -0.014458 -0.031835 -0.002404 -0.016267 -0.032269  
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 cc-pV(T+d)Z