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

For SO- (sulfur monoxide 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-pVQZ
Moller Plesset perturbation MP2=FULL -0.000248 -0.006922 -0.014645 -0.004086 -0.013479 -0.013479 -0.014516 -0.138946 -0.138946 -0.028587 -0.008677 -0.046678 -0.088654 -0.089598
MP3=FULL         -0.012486   -0.047408              
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-pVQZ