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

For C6H10 (1,5-Hexadiene)

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 -0.002710 -0.009950 -0.009950 -0.008038 -0.028738 -0.030466 -0.030955 -0.111472 -0.112844 -0.048151 -0.102047 -0.015282 -0.094262 -0.017531 -0.111755
MP3=FULL         -0.028445   -0.030675       -0.106967 -0.014445 -0.097297    
MP4=FULL   -0.010622     -0.028587       -0.120976     -0.014416 -0.095154 -0.016651 -0.116790
B2PLYP=FULL -0.000821 -0.002983 -0.002983 -0.002404 -0.008512 -0.009008 -0.009152 -0.031934 -0.032345 -0.014028 -0.029267 -0.004566 -0.027379 -0.005232 -0.032351
Quadratic configuration interaction QCISD(T)=FULL         -0.028497               -0.099546 -0.016555  
Coupled Cluster CCSD=FULL         -0.028154         -0.048181 -0.106857 -0.014108 -0.096889 -0.016302  
CCSD(T)=FULL                     -0.107569 -0.014334 -0.095614 0.020162  
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