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

For CF2Cl2 (difluorodichloromethane)

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(T+d)Z cc-pCVTZ Sadlej_pVTZ daug-cc-pVDZ daug-cc-pVTZ
Moller Plesset perturbation MP2=FULL -0.000588 -0.014169 -0.029169 -0.008964 -0.030087 -0.030087 -0.032343 -0.154839 -0.154839 -0.061170 -0.261307 -0.105722 -0.018888 -0.107929 -0.215739 -0.022794 -0.119667 -0.219991 -0.250229 -0.833426 -0.127975 -0.023920 -0.125110
MP3=FULL         -0.027772   -0.054579                       -0.243589 -0.832951 -0.128426    
MP4=FULL                                     -0.246585 -0.837998 -0.129937    
B2PLYP=FULL -0.000177 -0.004247 -0.008732 -0.002684 -0.008951 -0.008951 -0.009611 -0.044289 -0.044289 -0.018018 -0.075344 -0.030472 -0.005645 -0.031671   -0.006802 -0.034978   -0.072739 -0.236505 -0.036599 -0.007135 -0.036526
Quadratic configuration interaction QCISD(T)=FULL         -0.028136           -0.259396   -0.017000 -0.105504   -0.020822 -0.117706   -0.245967 -0.836974 -0.129721 -0.021915 -0.123371
Coupled Cluster CCSD=FULL         -0.027569         -0.056151 -0.256476 -0.104651 -0.016545 -0.103697 -0.212818 -0.020273 -0.115860   -0.243165 -0.831088 -0.128478 -0.021345  
CCSD(T)=FULL         -0.028129           -0.259352 -0.105839 -0.016992 -0.105478   -0.020805 -0.117682 -0.270076 -0.245939 -0.836952 -0.129675 -0.021896 -0.123344
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(T+d)Z cc-pCVTZ Sadlej_pVTZ daug-cc-pVDZ daug-cc-pVTZ