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

For DF (Hydrofluoric acid-d)

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-pVDZ aug-cc-pVTZ aug-cc-pVQZ
Moller Plesset perturbation MP2=FULL -0.000033 -0.001855 -0.001855 -0.001019 -0.001990 -0.002061 -0.002299 -0.018789 -0.018861 -0.004705 -0.002153 -0.013188 -0.031494 -0.002290 -0.014179 -0.031881
MP3=FULL         -0.001757   -0.020505                  
Coupled Cluster CCSD(T)=FULL         -0.001781           -0.001943 -0.012996 -0.032056 -0.002078 -0.014030 -0.032449
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-pVDZ aug-cc-pVTZ aug-cc-pVQZ