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

For C6H12 (hex-1-ene)

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 -0.002782 -0.009973 -0.009973 -0.008078 -0.028708 -0.030821 -0.031259 -0.111551 -0.113205 -0.050504 -0.102295 -0.015661 -0.095563 -0.018054 -0.113373
MP3=FULL         -0.028424   -0.030981       -0.107221 -0.014809 -0.098626    
MP4=FULL   -0.009577     -0.028551       -0.118418     -0.014805 -0.098663 -0.015668  
B2PLYP=FULL -0.000843 -0.002988 -0.002988 -0.002415 -0.008495 -0.009101 -0.009231 -0.031948 -0.032443 -0.014687 -0.029336 -0.004673 -0.027729 -0.005382 -0.032793
Quadratic configuration interaction QCISD(T)=FULL         -0.028482             -0.016581 -0.098484 -0.017135  
Coupled Cluster CCSD=FULL         -0.028155           -0.107122 -0.014472 -0.098261 -0.016811  
CCSD(T)=FULL         -0.028499           -0.143053 0.016514 -0.144053    
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