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

For CH3COC6H5 (acetophenone)


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
Moller Plesset perturbation MP2=FULL -0.003754 -0.015431 -0.015431 -0.012138 -0.042329 -0.043712 -0.044874 -0.168594 -0.169724 -0.072798 -0.153684 -0.022474 -0.138975
MP3=FULL         -0.041678   -0.064373            
MP4=FULL   -0.008682     -0.041549                
Coupled Cluster CCSD=FULL         -0.041263                
CCSD(T)=FULL         -0.040567                
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