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

For MgCl+ (magnesium monochloride cation)

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 cc-pV(T+d)Z
Moller Plesset perturbation MP2=FULL -0.017569 -0.008140 -0.018129 -0.005564 -0.015914 -0.015914 -0.016897 -0.175773 -0.175773 -0.028062 -0.009430 -0.051496 -0.091872 -0.093923 -0.122512
MP3=FULL         -0.014949   -0.017285                
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 cc-pV(T+d)Z