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

For CH3OH2+ (Methanol, protonated)

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 -0.000555 -0.003489 -0.003489 -0.002367 -0.007111 -0.007921 -0.008146 -0.037094 -0.037728 -0.014746 -0.034203 -0.005012 -0.029959 -0.058943 -0.005672 -0.034337 -0.060070
MP3=FULL         -0.006864   -0.011364                    
Coupled Cluster CCSD(T)=FULL         -0.006871           -0.035565 -0.004651 -0.030590 -0.061298 -0.005301 -0.035315 -0.062484
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