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

For NO3+ (nitrogen trioxide 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) TZVP cc-pVDZ cc-pVTZ aug-cc-pVDZ aug-cc-pVTZ
Moller Plesset perturbation MP2=FULL -0.000535 -0.007300 -0.007300 -0.004322 -0.010755 -0.010755 -0.012054 -0.074360 -0.074359 -0.029357 -0.068186 -0.008304 -0.051543 -0.009933 -0.061336
MP3=FULL         -0.010371   -0.021952                
MP4=FULL   -0.006747     -0.010240       -0.076146     -0.007683 -0.052884 -0.009056 -0.061831
Coupled Cluster CCSD=FULL         -0.010122           -0.069654 -0.007556 -0.052626 -0.008925 -0.061663
CCSD(T)=FULL         -0.010235           -0.070096 -0.007673 -0.053021 -0.009048 -0.062024
STO-3G 3-21G 3-21G* 6-31G 6-31G* 6-31G** 6-31+G** 6-311G* 6-311G** 6-31G(2df,p) TZVP cc-pVDZ cc-pVTZ aug-cc-pVDZ aug-cc-pVTZ