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

For H3PO4 (Phosphoric Acid)

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
Moller Plesset perturbation MP2=FULL -0.002519 -0.014219 -0.021603 -0.009084 -0.025828 -0.026319 -0.028195 -0.199208 -0.199577 -0.059903 -0.100049 -0.018293 -0.099980 -0.024112
MP3=FULL         -0.024711   -0.052988              
Coupled Cluster CCSD(T)=FULL         -0.024981           -0.102127 -0.017233 -0.057110  
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