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

For CH3CHCHCH2 (methylallyl radical)

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 -0.001694 -0.006530 -0.006530 -0.005239 -0.018962 -0.020180 -0.020494 -0.074136 -0.075107 -0.030507 -0.067889 -0.010164 -0.062910 -0.011407 -0.073774
MP4=FULL   -0.006298     -0.018847       -0.078578     -0.009598 -0.065294 -0.010832 -0.076334
B2PLYP=FULL -0.000522 -0.001961 -0.001961 -0.001570 -0.005604 -0.005952 -0.006044 -0.021225 -0.021517 -0.008880 -0.019455 -0.003027 -0.018204 -0.003394 -0.021290
Coupled Cluster CCSD=FULL         -0.018533           -0.071075 -0.009364 -0.064387    
CCSD(T)=FULL         -0.018767           -0.071538 -0.009520 -0.064968    
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