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

For CH2ClCHCHCH3 (2-Butene, 1-chloro-)

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 -0.001877 -0.011020 -0.018500 -0.008065 -0.029166 -0.030419 -0.031337 -0.123439 -0.124485 -0.052803 -0.095386 -0.016418 -0.096941 -0.019255 -0.111571
MP3=FULL         -0.028050   -0.030198       -0.097527 -0.015023 -0.097040    
MP4=FULL   -0.010432     -0.028337       -0.127779     -0.015194 -0.089908 -0.018014 -0.114569
B2PLYP=FULL -0.000570 -0.003324 -0.005558 -0.002426 -0.008675 -0.009035 -0.009308 -0.035449 -0.035760 -0.015521 -0.027541 -0.004929 -0.028383 -0.005774 -0.032526
Quadratic configuration interaction QCISD(T)=FULL         -0.028251             -0.015109 -0.087377 -0.017892 -0.113998
Coupled Cluster CCSD=FULL         -0.027802         -0.050538 -0.097435 -0.014769 -0.096732 -0.017492  
CCSD(T)=FULL         -0.028252           -0.098365 -0.015104 -0.100765 0.011397 -0.070907
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