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

For N2O4 (Dinitrogen tetroxide)

Energies in Hartree
Methods with standard basis sets
6-31G* 6-31+G** 6-311G* 6-311G** 6-311+G(3df,2p) cc-pVTZ cc-pVQZ aug-cc-pVDZ aug-cc-pVTZ
Moller Plesset perturbation MP2=FULL -0.017451   -0.112792 -0.112792          
MP3=FULL -0.016471 -0.042316              
B2PLYP=FULL -0.005108         -0.023333      
Coupled Cluster CCSD(T)=FULL -0.016319       -0.141260   -0.183063 -0.014176 -0.096245
6-31G* 6-31+G** 6-311G* 6-311G** 6-311+G(3df,2p) cc-pVTZ cc-pVQZ aug-cc-pVDZ aug-cc-pVTZ