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

For CHCl2CHO (dichloroacetaldehyde)

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 aug-cc-pVDZ aug-cc-pVTZ
Moller Plesset perturbation MP2=FULL -0.001061 -0.013962 -0.028985 -0.009230 -0.032617 -0.032979 -0.034630 -0.154300 -0.154669 -0.065452 -0.258915 -0.105765 -0.019339 -0.111130 -0.023273 -0.125083
MP3=FULL         -0.030442   -0.046102                  
MP4=FULL                 -0.156476              
B2PLYP=FULL -0.000322 -0.004211 -0.008700 -0.002778 -0.009723 -0.009827 -0.010318 -0.044289 -0.044397 -0.019303 -0.074869 -0.030626 -0.005813 -0.032703 -0.006982 -0.036650
Coupled Cluster CCSD=FULL         -0.030206         -0.060786   -0.105383 -0.017004 -0.107799 -0.020754 -0.122349
CCSD(T)=FULL         -0.030780             -0.106616 -0.017477 -0.109632 -0.021320  
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 aug-cc-pVDZ aug-cc-pVTZ