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

For C5H6O (3-Methylfuran)

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 -0.002365 -0.010314 -0.010314 -0.007941 -0.027396 -0.028451 -0.029251 -0.112323 -0.113233 -0.047538 -0.102548 -0.015016 -0.091734 -0.017496
MP3=FULL         -0.026909   -0.042476              
Coupled Cluster CCSD(T)=FULL                     -0.107556 -0.049075 -0.093750 -0.013046
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