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

For CH3SeCH3 (dimethylselenide)


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 -0.001051 -0.006930 -0.013978 -0.015077 -0.043724 -0.044938 -0.045853 -0.416063 -0.416982 -0.117819 -0.104003 -0.015237 -0.082203 -0.018291 -0.096132
MP3=FULL         -0.041175   -0.043261       -0.093217 -0.013671 -0.075718    
MP4=FULL   -0.006658     -0.042867       -0.398941     -0.014578 -0.081663 -0.017630 -0.094954
B2PLYP=FULL -0.000327 -0.002098 -0.004285 -0.004522 -0.013567 -0.013917 -0.014188 -0.122804 -0.123078 -0.036357 -0.030725 -0.004670 -0.024466 -0.005593 -0.028437
Coupled Cluster CCSD=FULL         -0.041427         -0.110080 -0.096437 -0.013730 -0.077458 -0.016585 -0.090994
CCSD(T)=FULL         -0.042432           -0.098612 -0.014282 -0.079510 -0.017239 -0.093142
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