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

For MgS- (magnesium sulfide anion)

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 cc-pVTZ cc-pVQZ
Moller Plesset perturbation MP2=FULL -0.017720 -0.009124 -0.019929 -0.006035 -0.017150 -0.017150 -0.018214 -0.248092 -0.248092 -0.029608 -0.010364 -0.054381 -0.089831
MP3=FULL         -0.016221   -0.028187            
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 cc-pVTZ cc-pVQZ