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

For CBrClF2 (Methane, bromochlorodifluoro-)

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) cc-pVDZ cc-pVTZ aug-cc-pVDZ aug-cc-pVTZ
Moller Plesset perturbation MP2=FULL -0.000546 -0.013164 -0.027632 -0.017141 -0.047818 -0.047817 -0.050409 -0.500306 -0.500306 -0.125061 -0.020806 -0.120080 -0.025777 -0.134357
Coupled Cluster CCSD(T)=FULL         -0.045511           -0.019012 -0.115429 -0.023848 -0.016848
STO-3G 3-21G 3-21G* 6-31G 6-31G* 6-31G** 6-31+G** 6-311G* 6-311G** 6-31G(2df,p) cc-pVDZ cc-pVTZ aug-cc-pVDZ aug-cc-pVTZ