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

For CHF3 (Methane, trifluoro-)

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-pCVTZ aug-cc-pCVTZ Sadlej_pVTZ daug-cc-pVDZ daug-cc-pVTZ
Moller Plesset perturbation MP2=FULL -0.000476 -0.007229 -0.007229 -0.004488 -0.011893 -0.012075 -0.013324 -0.075091 -0.075281 -0.023581 -0.092701 -0.068015 -0.008829 -0.054134 -0.121714 -0.010573 -0.061175 -0.123877 -0.211840 -0.212113 -0.059006 -0.011009 -0.064280
MP3=FULL         -0.011239   -0.038969                       -0.217184 -0.217474 -0.061054    
MP4=FULL                                     -0.218229 -0.218439 -0.061347    
B2PLYP=FULL -0.000142 -0.002108 -0.002108 -0.001309 -0.003469 -0.003521 -0.003876 -0.021140 -0.021196 -0.006790 -0.026201 -0.019171 -0.002559 -0.015504   -0.003072 -0.017485   -0.059463 -0.059545 -0.016572 -0.003196 -0.018356
Quadratic configuration interaction QCISD(T)=FULL         -0.011312           -0.094997   -0.008118 -0.054184   -0.009849 -0.061698   -0.218050 -0.218280 -0.061246 -0.010271 -0.065011
Coupled Cluster CCSD=FULL         -0.011189         -0.022979 -0.094332 -0.069570 -0.008030 -0.053761 -0.124061 -0.009743 -0.061278   -0.216720 -0.216938 -0.061043 -0.010164 -0.064584
CCSD(T)=FULL         -0.011313           -0.095000 -0.069874 -0.008118 -0.054195 -0.125004 -0.009849 -0.061714 -0.127242 -0.218047 -0.218287 -0.061244 -0.010271 -0.065027
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-pCVTZ aug-cc-pCVTZ Sadlej_pVTZ daug-cc-pVDZ daug-cc-pVTZ