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

For MgS+ (magnesium sulfide cation)

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 cc-pVQZ aug-cc-pVQZ
Moller Plesset perturbation MP2=FULL -0.018383 -0.008985 -0.019355 -0.005986 -0.016654 -0.016654 -0.017754 -0.247502 -0.247502 -0.028229 -0.009958 -0.052998 -0.088018 -0.089564
MP3=FULL         -0.015932   -0.018135              
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 cc-pVQZ aug-cc-pVQZ