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

For P4 (Phosphorus tetramer)

Energies in Hartree
Methods with standard basis sets
3-21G 6-31G* 6-31G** 6-31+G** 6-311G* 6-311G** cc-pVDZ cc-pVTZ cc-pVQZ aug-cc-pVDZ cc-pV(T+d)Z cc-pCVDZ
Moller Plesset perturbation MP2=FULL -0.024998 -0.046302 -0.046302 -0.049146 -0.497718 -0.497718 -0.028125 -0.175989 -0.214106 -0.033812 -0.425212 -0.835892
MP3=FULL   -0.043215   -0.051638                
Coupled Cluster CCSD(T)=FULL   -0.044042         -0.025991 -0.175341   -0.031749   -0.837906
3-21G 6-31G* 6-31G** 6-31+G** 6-311G* 6-311G** cc-pVDZ cc-pVTZ cc-pVQZ aug-cc-pVDZ cc-pV(T+d)Z cc-pCVDZ