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

For C4H8O2 (Butanoic acid)

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 aug-cc-pVDZ aug-cc-pVTZ
Moller Plesset perturbation MP2=FULL -0.002017 -0.010316 -0.010316 -0.007516 -0.024819 -0.026227 -0.027030 -0.112231 -0.113314 -0.050317 -0.102622 -0.014860 -0.090119 -0.017510 -0.106177
MP3=FULL         -0.024222   -0.026433       -0.106713 -0.013919      
B2PLYP=FULL -0.000609 -0.003063 -0.003063 -0.002230 -0.007314 -0.007718 -0.007951 -0.031960 -0.032284 -0.014553 -0.029266 -0.004394 -0.026059 -0.005175  
Coupled Cluster CCSD=FULL         -0.024002         -0.050463 -0.106564 -0.013628      
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 aug-cc-pVDZ aug-cc-pVTZ