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

For C5H8O2 (Acetylacetone)


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 -0.002425 -0.011973 -0.011973 -0.008870 -0.029775 -0.031253 -0.032240 -0.130821 -0.131967 -0.059218 -0.119520 -0.017273 -0.104902 -0.020503 -0.124442
MP3=FULL         -0.029125   -0.051079       -0.124420 -0.016186 -0.107339    
B2PLYP=FULL -0.000733 -0.003560 -0.003560 -0.002637   -0.009207   -0.037289   -0.017139 -0.034115 -0.005119 -0.030357 -0.006068 -0.035881
Coupled Cluster CCSD=FULL         -0.028835         -0.058149 -0.124236 -0.015835 -0.106724 -0.018982  
CCSD(T)=FULL         0.009227           -0.170802 -0.054238 -0.107154 -0.017909  
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