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

For CH2Cl+ (chloromethyl cation)

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 cc-pVQZ aug-cc-pVDZ aug-cc-pVTZ aug-cc-pVQZ daug-cc-pVDZ daug-cc-pVTZ
Moller Plesset perturbation MP2=FULL -0.000519 -0.005882 -0.013395 -0.003904 -0.014581 -0.014935 -0.015586 -0.067267 -0.067617 -0.027438 -0.117060 -0.043998 -0.008586 -0.048867 -0.090386 -0.009979 -0.053852 -0.092072 -0.010324 -0.055386
MP3=FULL         -0.013630   -0.014616       -0.115055 -0.043728 -0.007657 -0.047485         -0.009294 -0.054193
MP4=FULL   -0.005585     -0.013914       -0.068491   -0.116613   -0.007885 -0.048428   -0.009252 -0.053621   -0.009586 -0.055204
B2PLYP=FULL -0.000161 -0.001787 -0.004030 -0.001183 -0.004358 -0.004458 -0.004654 -0.019362 -0.019467 -0.008136 -0.033919 -0.012809 -0.002591 -0.014424   -0.003007 -0.015840   -0.003110 -0.016281
Quadratic configuration interaction QCISD(T)=FULL         -0.013820           -0.116336   -0.007800 -0.048236   -0.009153 -0.053407   -0.009486 -0.054988
Coupled Cluster CCSD=FULL         -0.013519         -0.025072 -0.114847 -0.043685 -0.007561 -0.047315 -0.089181 -0.008876 -0.052457 -0.090870 -0.009200 -0.054017
CCSD(T)=FULL         -0.013810           -0.116285 -0.044284 -0.007792 -0.048205 -0.090659 -0.009142 -0.053376 -0.092367 -0.009475 -0.054956
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 cc-pVQZ aug-cc-pVDZ aug-cc-pVTZ aug-cc-pVQZ daug-cc-pVDZ daug-cc-pVTZ