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

For NCl- (nitrogen monochloride anion)


Methods with standard basis sets
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 aug-cc-pVTZ cc-pV(T+d)Z
Moller Plesset perturbation MP2=FULL -0.005979 -0.013375 -0.003679 -0.012743 -0.012743 -0.013671 -0.067063 -0.067063 -0.027235 -0.007796 -0.044352 -0.047503 -0.115377
MP3=FULL       -0.011647   -0.042816              
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 aug-cc-pVTZ cc-pV(T+d)Z