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

For C8H6 (benzocyclobutadiene)


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
Moller Plesset perturbation MP2=FULL -0.003643 -0.013603 -0.013603 -0.011030 -0.039581 -0.040558 -0.041480 -0.149795 -0.150722 -0.063581 -0.136369 -0.019942 -0.123995
MP3=FULL         -0.039105   -0.056564            
Coupled Cluster CCSD=FULL         -0.038693           -0.142663 -0.018352 -0.127362
CCSD(T)=FULL         -0.039186                
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