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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 cation)

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-pVTZ cc-pVQZ aug-cc-pVQZ
Moller Plesset perturbation MP2=FULL -0.002925 -0.007784 -0.015163 -0.005036 -0.013828 -0.013827 -0.015332 -0.143088 -0.143088 -0.029428 -0.067876 -0.074629 -0.076925
MP3=FULL         -0.013446   -0.019022            
STO-3G 3-21G 3-21G* 6-31G 6-31G* 6-31G** 6-31+G** 6-311G* 6-311G** 6-31G(2df,p) cc-pVTZ cc-pVQZ aug-cc-pVQZ