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

For CH3CH2CH2Br (n-propyl bromide)

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) cc-pVDZ cc-pVTZ
Moller Plesset perturbation MP2=FULL -0.001426 -0.008310 -0.015271 -0.014770 -0.041904 -0.043242 -0.044254 -0.450401 -0.451453 -0.109737 -0.016046 -0.094419
MP3=FULL         -0.039874              
Coupled Cluster CCSD(T)=FULL         -0.040633           -0.014986 -0.087671
STO-3G 3-21G 3-21G* 6-31G 6-31G* 6-31G** 6-31+G** 6-311G* 6-311G** 6-31G(2df,p) cc-pVDZ cc-pVTZ