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

For CH3Cl (Methyl chloride)

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 cc-pV(D+d)Z cc-pV(T+d)Z aug-cc-pV(T+d)Z cc-pCVDZ cc-pCVTZ aug-cc-pCVTZ Sadlej_pVTZ daug-cc-pVDZ daug-cc-pVTZ
Moller Plesset perturbation MP2=FULL -0.000500 -0.005951 -0.013390 -0.003940 -0.014524 -0.015087 -0.015722 -0.067372 -0.067832 -0.027971 -0.117202 -0.044201 -0.008743 -0.049542 -0.091084 -0.010218 -0.054672 -0.092916 -0.060943 -0.120616 -0.125658 -0.250060 -0.385669 -0.386343 -0.056798 -0.010595 -0.056489
MP3=FULL         -0.013591   -0.017557       -0.115178 -0.043928 -0.007796 -0.048177         -0.057865 -0.117908 -0.123167 -0.250989 -0.385361 -0.386028   -0.009540 -0.055335
MP4=FULL   -0.005559     -0.013817       -0.068578   -0.116745   -0.007956 -0.049083   -0.009428 -0.054474   -0.058259 -0.119389 -0.124717 -0.251649 -0.387776 -0.388433   -0.009791 -0.056341
B2PLYP=FULL -0.000152 -0.001804 -0.004027 -0.001191 -0.004340 -0.004501 -0.004691 -0.019384 -0.019521 -0.008281 -0.033963 -0.012862 -0.002636 -0.014617   -0.003078 -0.016074   -0.017775 -0.035128 -0.036557 -0.071058 -0.109667 -0.109868   -0.003190 -0.016593
Quadratic configuration interaction QCISD(T)=FULL         -0.013749           -0.116474   -0.007921 -0.048939   -0.009371 -0.054309   -0.058202 -0.119121   -0.251548 -0.387313 -0.387970   -0.009733 -0.056173
QCISD(TQ)=FULL         -0.013717   -0.014896           -0.007887     -0.009317                      
Coupled Cluster CCSD=FULL         -0.013479         -0.025704 -0.115071 -0.043877 -0.007696 -0.048059 -0.089978 -0.009099 -0.053381   -0.057660 -0.117741 -0.122996 -0.250545 -0.384571     -0.009454 -0.055229
CCSD(T)=FULL         -0.013745           -0.116443 -0.044436 -0.007916 -0.048917 -0.091398 -0.009360 -0.054283   -0.058196 -0.119099 -0.124412 -0.251538 -0.387292 -0.387954   -0.009722 -0.056146
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 cc-pV(D+d)Z cc-pV(T+d)Z aug-cc-pV(T+d)Z cc-pCVDZ cc-pCVTZ aug-cc-pCVTZ Sadlej_pVTZ daug-cc-pVDZ daug-cc-pVTZ