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

For HCCCN+ (Cyanoacetylene 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-pVDZ
Moller Plesset perturbation MP2=FULL -0.001386 -0.006578 -0.006578 -0.005077 -0.018548 -0.018718 -0.019503 -0.074409 -0.074644 -0.032976 -0.009285
MP3=FULL         -0.018232   -0.022846        
B2PLYP=FULL   -0.001960     -0.005385   -0.005640        
Coupled Cluster CCSD(T)=FULL         -0.017929            
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