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

For CaCl2 (Calcium Chloride)

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
Moller Plesset perturbation MP2=FULL -0.004091 -0.009951 -0.027490 -0.005602 -0.020102 -0.020102 -0.021280 -0.205657 -0.205657 -0.040647 -0.083299 -0.095687 -0.232707
MP3=FULL         -0.018274   -0.029257            
MP4=FULL   -0.009315     -0.018597       -0.202522     -0.102590 -0.244448
Coupled Cluster CCSD=FULL         -0.018144           -0.083721 -0.101080 -0.239676
CCSD(T)=FULL         -0.018564           -0.084945 -0.102728 -0.244228
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