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

For CHClBr2 (Methane, dibromochloro-)

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 aug-cc-pVDZ aug-cc-pVTZ
Moller Plesset perturbation MP2=FULL -0.000542 -0.012771 -0.034307 -0.025511 -0.070315 -0.070561 -0.072867 -0.857005 -0.857237 -0.197884 -0.024672 -0.141122 -0.030826 -0.157321
MP3=FULL         -0.065600   -0.106000              
Coupled Cluster CCSD(T)=FULL         -0.067227           -0.022679 -0.092155 -0.028644 -0.143642
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 aug-cc-pVDZ aug-cc-pVTZ