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

For C12H8 (biphenylene)


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 -0.005562 -0.020762 -0.020762 -0.016967 -0.060152 -0.061459 -0.062987 -0.225503 -0.226686 -0.097852 -0.205280 -0.030328 -0.188623 -0.034797 -0.226915
MP3=FULL         -0.059402   -0.062288       -0.214893 -0.028521 -0.194601    
MP4=FULL   -0.020015     -0.059717       -0.237064     -0.028564   -0.033120  
B2PLYP=FULL -0.001689 -0.006234 -0.006234 -0.005081 -0.017821 -0.018198 -0.018649 -0.064645 -0.065002 -0.028639 -0.058886 -0.009080 -0.054850 -0.010410 -0.065707
Coupled Cluster CCSD=FULL         -0.058809         -0.097698 -0.214710 -0.027937 -0.198917    
CCSD(T)=FULL         -0.059538           -0.311886 -0.028369      
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