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

For SiO- (silicon monoxide anion)

Energies in Hartree
Methods with standard basis sets
STO-3G 3-21G 6-31G 6-31G* 6-31G** 6-31+G** 6-311G* 6-311G** 6-31G(2df,p) cc-pVDZ cc-pVTZ cc-pVQZ aug-cc-pVQZ
Moller Plesset perturbation MP2=FULL -0.001844 -0.007478 -0.004805 -0.013445 -0.013445 -0.014939 -0.142791 -0.142791 -0.028733 -0.008299 -0.067439 -0.073442 -0.075783
MP3=FULL       -0.012919   -0.050706              
STO-3G 3-21G 6-31G 6-31G* 6-31G** 6-31+G** 6-311G* 6-311G** 6-31G(2df,p) cc-pVDZ cc-pVTZ cc-pVQZ aug-cc-pVQZ