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

For PH2- (Phosphino 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) cc-pVDZ cc-pVTZ cc-pVQZ aug-cc-pVTZ
Moller Plesset perturbation MP2=FULL -0.001011 -0.005817 -0.012991 -0.003470 -0.010588 -0.011216 -0.011952 -0.123796 -0.124226 -0.019825 -0.007218 -0.042396 -0.052941 -0.045685
MP3=FULL         -0.010063   -0.031587              
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 cc-pVQZ aug-cc-pVTZ