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

For MgO (magnesium oxide)

Energies in Hartree
Methods with standard basis sets
3-21G 6-31G* 6-31G** 6-31+G** 6-311G* 6-311G** cc-pVDZ cc-pVTZ cc-pVQZ aug-cc-pVDZ aug-cc-pVTZ cc-pV(T+d)Z cc-pCVDZ cc-pCVTZ
Moller Plesset perturbation MP2=FULL -0.005579 -0.008905 -0.008905 -0.010199 -0.146520 -0.146520 -0.005569 -0.031561 -0.061664 -0.007084 -0.036592 -0.031561 -0.208190 -0.351416
MP3=FULL   -0.008446   -0.019552                    
Coupled Cluster CCSD(T)=FULL   -0.008798           -0.032416       -0.032416 -0.213030 -0.359638
3-21G 6-31G* 6-31G** 6-31+G** 6-311G* 6-311G** cc-pVDZ cc-pVTZ cc-pVQZ aug-cc-pVDZ aug-cc-pVTZ cc-pV(T+d)Z cc-pCVDZ cc-pCVTZ