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

For GeCl4 (Germanium Tetrachloride)

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) cc-pVDZ cc-pVTZ aug-cc-pVDZ aug-cc-pVTZ
Moller Plesset perturbation MP2=FULL -0.001459 -0.022054 -0.059788 -0.024527 -0.073645 -0.073645 -0.077931 -0.586843 -0.586843 -0.185333 -0.035659 -0.202295 -0.044184 -0.219274
MP3=FULL         -0.068172   -0.114284              
Coupled Cluster CCSD(T)=FULL         -0.071131           -0.032451 -0.192066 -0.040684 -0.208070
STO-3G 3-21G 3-21G* 6-31G 6-31G* 6-31G** 6-31+G** 6-311G* 6-311G** 6-31G(2df,p) cc-pVDZ cc-pVTZ aug-cc-pVDZ aug-cc-pVTZ