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

For KrF2 (Krypton difluoride)

Energies in Hartree
Methods with standard basis sets
3-21G 3-21G* 6-31G* 6-31G** 6-31+G** 6-311G* 6-311G** 6-31G(2df,p) TZVP cc-pVDZ cc-pVTZ cc-pVQZ aug-cc-pVDZ aug-cc-pVTZ aug-cc-pVQZ
Moller Plesset perturbation MP2=FULL   -0.013547 -0.025184 -0.025184 -0.026750 -0.398871 -0.398871 -0.074098 -0.097691 -0.012074 -0.069711 -0.142035 -0.015061 -0.076851 -0.145060
MP4=FULL -0.005719   -0.024125       -0.379551     -0.011004 -0.066784   -0.013920 -0.073579  
Coupled Cluster CCSD=FULL     -0.023708           -0.090283 -0.010593 -0.064432 -0.134482 -0.013448 -0.071508 -0.137329
CCSD(T)=FULL     -0.024019           -0.091845 -0.010876 -0.065937 -0.136676 -0.013867 -0.072885 -0.139536
3-21G 3-21G* 6-31G* 6-31G** 6-31+G** 6-311G* 6-311G** 6-31G(2df,p) TZVP cc-pVDZ cc-pVTZ cc-pVQZ aug-cc-pVDZ aug-cc-pVTZ aug-cc-pVQZ