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

For CH3CH2COOH (Propanoic 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 aug-cc-pVTZ
Moller Plesset perturbation MP2=FULL -0.001539 -0.008623 -0.008623 -0.006127 -0.019933 -0.020991 -0.021698 -0.093541 -0.094351 -0.040971 -0.085491 -0.012211 -0.074081 -0.014330 -0.086692
MP4=FULL         -0.019485                    
B2PLYP=FULL -0.000464 -0.002556 -0.002556 -0.001816 -0.005872 -0.006175 -0.006381 -0.026610 -0.026852 -0.011855 -0.024354 -0.003605 -0.021414 -0.004231 -0.024985
Coupled Cluster CCSD=FULL         -0.019214                    
CCSD(T)=FULL         -0.019429                 -0.013452  
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