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

For SF2- (sulfur difluoride 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) TZVP cc-pVDZ cc-pVTZ cc-pVQZ aug-cc-pVDZ aug-cc-pVTZ aug-cc-pVQZ
Moller Plesset perturbation MP2=FULL -0.000361 -0.008922 -0.016693 -0.005228 -0.015285 -0.015285 -0.016849 -0.157986 -0.157986 -0.030502 -0.062678 -0.010680 -0.060195 -0.121523 -0.012363 -0.064932 -0.122717
MP3=FULL         -0.014280   -0.079529                    
MP4=FULL   -0.008220     -0.014353       -0.157780     -0.009790 -0.059359   -0.011447 -0.064083  
Coupled Cluster CCSD=FULL         -0.014052           -0.062072 -0.009523 -0.058087 -0.120964 -0.011192 -0.063175 -0.122112
CCSD(T)=FULL         -0.014290           -0.062907 -0.009764 -0.059262 -0.122519 -0.011423 -0.064086 -0.123684
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 cc-pVQZ aug-cc-pVDZ aug-cc-pVTZ aug-cc-pVQZ