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

For C6H12 ((E)-hex-3-ene)

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         -0.028706     -0.111580           -0.018089 -0.113564
MP4=FULL   -0.009576     -0.028544       -0.118484     -0.014841      
B2PLYP=FULL -0.000847 -0.002988 -0.002988 -0.002413 -0.008495 -0.009101 -0.009230 -0.031957 -0.032462 -0.014677 -0.029339 -0.004692 -0.027801 -0.005390 -0.032853
Coupled Cluster CCSD=FULL         -0.028148           -0.107127 -0.014531      
CCSD(T)=FULL         -0.028484           -0.071640 -0.014753      
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