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

For CH3CHClCH3 (Propane, 2-chloro-)

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 -0.001450 -0.009403 -0.016918 -0.006796 -0.024383 -0.025659 -0.026420 -0.104890 -0.105918 -0.046599 -0.162199 -0.078535 -0.014170 -0.082154 -0.148110 -0.016782 -0.094198 -0.151819 -0.017516 -0.096808
MP3=FULL         -0.023306                              
MP4=FULL   -0.008883     -0.023585       -0.108400       -0.013080 -0.082921            
B2PLYP=FULL -0.000440 -0.002838 -0.005082 -0.002045 -0.007251 -0.007617 -0.007845 -0.030125 -0.030430 -0.013673 -0.046896 -0.022706 -0.004252 -0.024055   -0.005029 -0.027467   -0.005249 -0.028218
Coupled Cluster CCSD=FULL         -0.023124         -0.044473   -0.079791 -0.012701 -0.081498   -0.015204 -0.094230      
CCSD(T)=FULL         -0.023509               -0.012999     0.006436        
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