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

For SeO3 (selenium trioxide)

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 -0.000558 -0.009614 -0.016644 -0.017039 -0.044061 -0.044061 -0.046762 -0.429211 -0.429211 -0.129467 -0.122783 -0.017485 -0.090851 -0.022502 -0.103660
MP3=FULL         -0.041422   -0.097737                
MP4=FULL   -0.008908     -0.043081       -0.412809     -0.016130 -0.088006 -0.020932  
Coupled Cluster CCSD=FULL         -0.041726           -0.114545 -0.015627 -0.084852 -0.020373  
CCSD(T)=FULL         -0.042918           -0.116791 -0.016186 -0.086833 -0.021021  
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