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

For C6H6 (Prismane)

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) 6-311+G(3df,2p) TZVP cc-pVDZ cc-pVTZ aug-cc-pVDZ aug-cc-pVTZ daug-cc-pVDZ daug-cc-pVTZ
Moller Plesset perturbation MP2=FULL -0.002820 -0.010402 -0.010402 -0.008570 -0.030668 -0.031733 -0.032274 -0.113264 -0.114357 -0.054693 -0.134656 -0.103176 -0.015433 -0.094999 -0.019189 -0.112969 -0.019746 -0.115873
MP3=FULL         -0.030265   -0.031899         -0.107947 -0.014461 -0.097816     -0.018724  
MP4=FULL   -0.009995     -0.030420       -0.119459   -0.141245   -0.014484 -0.098457 -0.018192 -0.118216 -0.018737  
B2PLYP=FULL -0.000855 -0.003118 -0.003118 -0.002564 -0.009061 -0.009364 -0.009525 -0.032455 -0.032785 -0.015917 -0.038769 -0.029594 -0.004610 -0.027608 -0.005722 -0.032712 -0.005886 -0.033533
Quadratic configuration interaction QCISD(T)=FULL         -0.030319           -0.140957   -0.014368 -0.098259 -0.018059 -0.117708 -0.018602  
Coupled Cluster CCSD=FULL         -0.029977         -0.054999 -0.139450 -0.107824 -0.014159 -0.097447 -0.017812 -0.116783 -0.018354  
CCSD(T)=FULL         -0.030332           -0.140947 -0.108567 -0.014371 -0.098271 -0.018064 -0.169603 -0.018606 -0.119944
STO-3G 3-21G 3-21G* 6-31G 6-31G* 6-31G** 6-31+G** 6-311G* 6-311G** 6-31G(2df,p) 6-311+G(3df,2p) TZVP cc-pVDZ cc-pVTZ aug-cc-pVDZ aug-cc-pVTZ daug-cc-pVDZ daug-cc-pVTZ