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

For PPO (Phosphorus oxide phosphide)

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 -0.003034 -0.013971 -0.029294 -0.008658 -0.026148 -0.026148 -0.027993 -0.267061 -0.267061 -0.053481 -0.077618 -0.016439 -0.098589 -0.019365 -0.107660
MP3=FULL         -0.024750                    
MP4=FULL   -0.013150     -0.025107       -0.267353     -0.015290 -0.098793 -0.018235 -0.107951
Coupled Cluster CCSD=FULL         -0.024342           -0.076431 -0.014788 -0.096508 -0.017685 -0.105881
CCSD(T)=FULL         -0.025029           -0.077880 -0.015294 -0.098629 -0.018250 -0.107937
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