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

For CH3CHClCH3 (Propane, 2-chloro-)


Methods with standard basis sets
STO-3G 3-21G 3-21G* 6-31G 6-31G* 6-31G** 6-311G* 6-311G** 6-31G(2df,p) TZVP cc-pVDZ cc-pVTZ aug-cc-pVDZ aug-cc-pVTZ
Moller Plesset perturbation MP2=FULL -0.001450 -0.009403 -0.016918 -0.006796   -0.025659 -0.104890 -0.105918 -0.046599 -0.078534 -0.014170   -0.016781 -0.094199
MP3=FULL         -0.023306                  
MP4=FULL   -0.008883     -0.023585     -0.108400     -0.013080 -0.082921    
Coupled Cluster CCSD=FULL         -0.023124       -0.044473 -0.079791 -0.012701 -0.081498 -0.015204 -0.094230
CCSD(T)=FULL         -0.023509           -0.012999   0.006436  
STO-3G 3-21G 3-21G* 6-31G 6-31G* 6-31G** 6-311G* 6-311G** 6-31G(2df,p) TZVP cc-pVDZ cc-pVTZ aug-cc-pVDZ aug-cc-pVTZ