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

For PF (phosphorus monofluoride)

Energies in Hartree
Methods with standard basis sets
3-21G 6-31G* 6-31G** 6-31+G** 6-311G* cc-pVDZ cc-pVQZ aug-cc-pVDZ cc-pV(T+d)Z
Moller Plesset perturbation MP2=FULL -0.007682 -0.013494 -0.013495 -0.014650 -0.142604 -0.008576 -0.083261 -0.010126 -0.115085
MP3=FULL   -0.012996   -0.030060          
3-21G 6-31G* 6-31G** 6-31+G** 6-311G* cc-pVDZ cc-pVQZ aug-cc-pVDZ cc-pV(T+d)Z