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

For CH2(OH)2 (methanediol)

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 -0.000620 -0.005310 -0.005310 -0.003431 -0.009911 -0.010546 -0.011080 -0.056051 -0.056603 -0.022285 -0.051364 -0.007113 -0.042754 -0.008281 -0.049118
MP4=FULL   -0.004986     -0.009499       -0.058086     -0.006580 -0.043357 -0.007736 -0.050177
Coupled Cluster CCSD=FULL         -0.009351           -0.052875 -0.006466 -0.042933 -0.007602 -0.049757
CCSD(T)=FULL                     -0.053145 -0.006544 -0.043296 -0.007692 -0.050129
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