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

For CH3NNCH3 ((Z)-1,2-Dimethyldiazene)

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 -0.001277 -0.006805 -0.006805 -0.004962 -0.016119 -0.017193 -0.017828 -0.074415 -0.075244 -0.034005 -0.068431 -0.009878 -0.059458 -0.011436 -0.070181
MP3=FULL         -0.015698   -0.017415                
MP4=FULL   -0.006462     -0.015692       -0.078035     -0.009197 -0.061097 -0.010737 -0.072689
B2PLYP=FULL -0.000385 -0.002024 -0.002024 -0.001473 -0.004757 -0.005065 -0.005250 -0.021210 -0.021459 -0.009852 -0.019530 -0.002930 -0.017240 -0.003392 -0.020277
Coupled Cluster CCSD=FULL                           -0.010531 -0.070671
CCSD(T)=FULL         -0.015654           -0.071502 -0.009147 -0.061010 -0.010680 -0.072607
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