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

For C2H5- (Ethyl anion)

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 cc-pVQZ aug-cc-pVDZ aug-cc-pVTZ aug-cc-pVQZ
Moller Plesset perturbation MP2=FULL -0.000806 -0.003153 -0.003153 -0.002518 -0.008991 -0.009782 -0.009958 -0.036639 -0.037318 -0.014513 -0.033709 -0.004945 -0.030226 -0.055742 -0.005582 -0.035755 -0.057011
MP4=FULL   -0.003019     -0.008932       -0.039019     -0.004618 -0.031314   -0.005261 -0.037383  
Coupled Cluster CCSD=FULL         -0.008816           -0.035317 -0.004529 -0.030963 -0.058107 -0.005153 -0.036969 -0.059232
CCSD(T)=FULL         -0.008911           -0.035533 -0.004589 -0.031234 -0.058644 -0.005229 -0.037298 -0.059988
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 cc-pVQZ aug-cc-pVDZ aug-cc-pVTZ aug-cc-pVQZ