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

For HOONO2 (peroxy nitric acid)

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 -0.000609 -0.009100 -0.009100 -0.005401 -0.013715 -0.013847 -0.015381 -0.093788 -0.093901 -0.037468 -0.085618 -0.010845 -0.066537 -0.012625 -0.077115
MP3=FULL         -0.012739   -0.036129                
MP4=FULL   -0.008456     -0.012662       -0.095579     -0.009833 -0.066452 -0.011551  
Coupled Cluster CCSD=FULL         -0.012531         -0.037225 -0.087498 -0.009684 -0.066273 -0.011399 -0.077625
CCSD(T)=FULL         -0.012651           -0.087951 -0.009806 -0.126065 -0.011528  
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