Accurate prediction of a spin-state energy difference is crucial for understanding the spin crossover phenomena and is very challenging for density functional approximations, especially for local and semi-local approximations due to delocalization errors. Here, we investigate the effect of the self-interaction error removal from the local spin density approximation (LSDA) and Perdew–Burke–Ernzerhof generalized gradient approximation on the spin-state gaps of Fe(II) complexes with various ligands using recently developed locally scaled self-interaction correction (LSIC) by Zope et al. [J. Chem. Phys. 151, 214108 (2019)]. The LSIC method is exact for one-electron density, recovers the uniform electron gas limit of the underlying functional, and approaches the well-known Perdew–Zunger self-interaction correction (PZSIC) as a particular case when the scaling factor is set to unity. Our results, when compared with reference diffusion Monte Carlo results, show that the PZSIC method significantly overestimates spin-state gaps favoring low spin states for all ligands and does not improve upon density functional approximations. The perturbative LSIC-LSDA using PZSIC densities significantly improves the gaps with a mean absolute error of 0.51 eV but slightly overcorrects for the stronger CO ligands. The quasi-self-consistent LSIC-LSDA, such as coupled-cluster single double and perturbative triple [CCSD(T)], gives a correct sign of spin-state gaps for all ligands with a mean absolute error of 0.56 eV, comparable to that of CCSD(T) (0.49 eV).
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