“…The coinage metal dimers Cu 2 , Ag 2 , and Au 2 serve as test systems for our CCSD, CCSD(T), and CR-CC(2,3) calculations. Prior experimental and theoretical investigations of these systems have yielded reliable energetics and spectroscopic parameters (see refs and − for selected examples), and it has been shown, especially for the heavier dimers, that relativistic effects can significantly change the description of the PECs. Previous CC calculations on these systems ,− ,,,,, have provided accurate results, but these studies relied on the use of effective core potentials (ECPs) or the frozen-core approximation and thus correlated only the valence and semicore electrons.…”