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

For C2H6+ (ethane cation)

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 cc-pVQZ aug-cc-pVDZ aug-cc-pVTZ aug-cc-pVQZ
Moller Plesset perturbation MP2=FULL -0.000947 -0.003236 -0.003236 -0.002590 -0.009280 -0.010209 -0.010304 -0.036901 -0.037766 -0.015604 -0.033941 -0.005301 -0.031816 -0.056838 -0.005921 -0.037234 -0.058186
MP3=FULL         -0.009196   -0.011437                    
Coupled Cluster CCSD(T)=FULL         -0.009204           -0.035773 -0.004980 -0.033010 -0.059808 -0.005596 -0.038925 -0.044565
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 cc-pVQZ aug-cc-pVDZ aug-cc-pVTZ aug-cc-pVQZ