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

For CHFClCHFCl (1,2-dichloro-1,2-difluoroethane RR)

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 aug-cc-pVDZ aug-cc-pVTZ
Moller Plesset perturbation MP2=FULL -0.001028 -0.015885 -0.030894 -0.010349 -0.034763 -0.035147 -0.037475 -0.173437 -0.173840 -0.070104 -0.122852 -0.021510 -0.124687 -0.026136 -0.140491
MP3=FULL         -0.032389   -0.035038       -0.122754 -0.019189 -0.121348    
MP4=FULL   -0.014782             -0.175620     -0.019580   -0.024156  
B2PLYP=FULL -0.000309 -0.004763 -0.009247 -0.003100 -0.010331 -0.010441 -0.011122 -0.049609 -0.049727 -0.020595 -0.035382 -0.006424 -0.036506 -0.007793 -0.040950
Quadratic configuration interaction QCISD(T)=FULL         -0.032772             -0.019466 -0.122885 -0.023991  
Coupled Cluster CCSD=FULL         -0.032152         -0.065147 -0.122595 -0.018972 -0.120933 -0.023391  
CCSD(T)=FULL         -0.032766           -0.123894 -0.019457 -0.122857 -0.023972  
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 aug-cc-pVDZ aug-cc-pVTZ