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. 2023 Jan 25;8(5):5033–5041. doi: 10.1021/acsomega.2c07782

Table 6. MAE of the Difference in Total Energy for 12 Small Molecules between DFT and CCSD(T) Single-Component Calculations with the cc-pVnZ Electronic Basis Set and Either a Mixed Electronic Basis Set or the cc-pVnZ-mc Electronic Basis Seta.

  cc-pVnZ
cc-pVnZ-mc
DZ/TZ DZ/QZ TZ/QZ DZ TZ QZ
DFT 5.11 6.06 0.583 2.31 0.205 0.0503
CCSD(T) 9.42 16.3 3.77 2.78 1.16 0.446
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All values are in mHa. The mixed electronic basis sets are compared to cc-pVnZ calculations with a value of n equal to the n used for the non-hydrogen atoms.