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

For C3H2O2 (Propiolic acid)

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
Moller Plesset perturbation MP2=FULL -0.001403 -0.008601 -0.008601 -0.006102 -0.020251 -0.020573 -0.021400 -0.093463 -0.093793 -0.038067 -0.085247 -0.011569 -0.071269 -0.143296 -0.013565 -0.083239 -0.146373
MP3=FULL         -0.019741   -0.037398                    
MP4=FULL   -0.008173     -0.019826       -0.097092     -0.010791 -0.072947   -0.012787    
Coupled Cluster CCSD=FULL         -0.019532           -0.088450 -0.010582 -0.072288   -0.012541 -0.085162  
CCSD(T)=FULL         -0.019770           -0.124502 -0.010736 -0.072917   -0.012718 -0.083273  
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