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

For C6H6O (2,5-Cyclohexadienone)

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 -0.002802 -0.011905 -0.011905 -0.009220 -0.032233 -0.033251 -0.034077 -0.130948 -0.131790 -0.056542 -0.119342 -0.017148 -0.106488 -0.019963 -0.127065
MP3=FULL             -0.033575       -0.124621 -0.016094 -0.109406    
MP4=FULL   -0.011400     -0.031865       -0.137319     -0.016092   -0.018892  
B2PLYP=FULL -0.000850 -0.003557 -0.003557 -0.002751 -0.009536 -0.009828 -0.010072 -0.037436 -0.037689 -0.016481 -0.034148 -0.005110 -0.030907 -0.005946 -0.036743
Quadratic configuration interaction QCISD(T)=FULL         -0.031761             -0.015990 -0.109670 -0.018780  
Coupled Cluster CCSD=FULL         -0.031383           -0.124469 -0.015743 -0.108853 -0.018507  
CCSD(T)=FULL         -0.031774           -0.125281 -0.015994 -0.048549    
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