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

For NS- (nitrogen 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) TZVP cc-pVDZ cc-pVTZ cc-pVQZ aug-cc-pVDZ aug-cc-pVTZ aug-cc-pVQZ
Moller Plesset perturbation MP2=FULL -0.000320 -0.006738 -0.014456 -0.004052 -0.059201 -0.013768 -0.014728 -0.183240 -0.138647 -0.028873 -0.045143 -0.008557 -0.046165 -0.087274 -0.009880 -0.049653 -0.088265
MP3=FULL         0.037281   -0.045134                    
MP4=FULL   -0.006339     -0.013005       -0.138601     -0.007816 -0.045652   -0.009164 -0.049217  
Coupled Cluster CCSD=FULL         -0.012632           -0.044760 -0.007521 -0.044455 -0.086402 -0.008767 -0.047903 -0.087329
CCSD(T)=FULL         -0.012908           -0.045372 -0.007748 -0.045385 -0.087880 -0.009042 -0.048881 -0.088836
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 cc-pVQZ aug-cc-pVDZ aug-cc-pVTZ aug-cc-pVQZ