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

For NH3- (Ammonia anion)

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) TZVP cc-pVDZ cc-pVTZ cc-pVQZ aug-cc-pVDZ aug-cc-pVTZ aug-cc-pVQZ
Moller Plesset perturbation MP2=FULL -0.000160 -0.001679 -0.001679 -0.001099 -0.003009 -0.003362 -0.003708 -0.018508 -0.018897 -0.007912 -0.017172 -0.002380 -0.014342 -0.029702 -0.002759 -0.016854 -0.030344
MP3=FULL         -0.002825   -0.003529       -0.017746 -0.002200 -0.014520        
MP4=FULL   -0.001584     -0.002816       -0.019408     -0.002165 -0.014566   -0.002547 -0.017254  
B2PLYP=FULL -0.000045 -0.000493 -0.000493 -0.000322 -0.000880 -0.000977 -0.001077 -0.005242 -0.005356 -0.002270 -0.004874 -0.000695 -0.004144   -0.000808 -0.004847  
Quadratic configuration interaction QCISD(T)=FULL         -0.002809             -0.002154 -0.014519   -0.002532 -0.017201  
QCISD(TQ)=FULL         -0.002811   -0.003492         -0.002151 -0.014517 -0.030804 -0.002530 -0.017204  
Coupled Cluster CCSD=FULL         -0.002776         -0.007922 -0.017689 -0.002131 -0.014409 -0.030551 -0.002506 -0.017081 -0.031218
CCSD(T)=FULL         -0.002811           -0.017783 -0.002154 -0.014521 -0.030807 -0.002533 -0.017205 -0.031477
STO-3G 3-21G 3-21G* 6-31G 6-31G* 6-31G** 6-31+G** 6-311G* 6-311G** 6-31G(2df,p) TZVP cc-pVDZ cc-pVTZ cc-pVQZ aug-cc-pVDZ aug-cc-pVTZ aug-cc-pVQZ