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

For Al2Cl6 (Aluminum, di-μ-chlorotetrachlorodi-)

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 cc-pV(T+d)Z aug-cc-pV(T+d)Z
Moller Plesset perturbation MP2=FULL -0.017475 -0.037786 -0.095600 -0.025652 -0.083064 -0.083064 -0.089029 -0.545107 -0.545107 -0.166865 -0.306266 -0.051233 -0.343113 -0.065688 -0.366957 -0.844593 -0.868220
MP3=FULL         -0.077082   -0.082860       -0.300101 -0.045583 -0.331615     -0.825326 -0.849128
MP4=FULL   -0.035470     -0.079000       -0.546100     -0.047168 -0.340452 -0.061725   -0.840150  
B2PLYP=FULL -0.005784 -0.011744 -0.029153 -0.007975 -0.025284 -0.025284 -0.027104 -0.159003 -0.159003 -0.050317 -0.091125 -0.015774 -0.102939 -0.020187 -0.109809 -0.248358 -0.255120
Coupled Cluster CCSD=FULL         -0.076864           -0.301229 -0.045425 -0.332664 -0.059437 -0.356607 -0.826766  
CCSD(T)=FULL         -0.078848           -0.305939 -0.047014 -0.339331 -0.061427 -0.292645 -0.766593 -0.850459
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 cc-pV(T+d)Z aug-cc-pV(T+d)Z