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

For ONONO (Nitrosyl nitrite)

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 -0.000647 -0.008952 -0.008952 -0.005441 -0.014005 -0.014004 -0.015597 -0.093202 -0.093202 -0.037077 -0.085155 -0.010516 -0.064304 -0.012206 -0.074782
MP3=FULL         -0.013097   -0.014695       -0.087575 -0.009647 -0.065009    
MP4=FULL   -0.008324     -0.012867       -0.095036     -0.009506 -0.064283 -0.011137 -0.075275
Coupled Cluster CCSD=FULL         -0.012813           -0.087171 -0.009346 -0.064093 -0.010996 -0.075432
CCSD(T)=FULL         -0.012950           -0.087654 -0.009478 -0.064540 -0.011129 -0.075747
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