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

For KCN (Potassium cyanide)

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) 6-311+G(3df,2p) TZVP
Moller Plesset perturbation MP2=FULL -0.017338 -0.005829 -0.007195 -0.002342 -0.007859 -0.007859 -0.008246 -0.143897 -0.143897 -0.015442 -0.172404 -0.067407
MP3=FULL         -0.007636   -0.008025       -0.169828 -0.071162
MP4=FULL   -0.005797     -0.007630       -0.142889   -0.171169  
B2PLYP=FULL -0.006711 -0.002297 -0.002671 -0.000697 -0.002333 -0.002333 -0.002446 -0.040851 -0.040851 -0.004519 -0.049170 -0.021037
Quadratic configuration interaction QCISD(T)=FULL         -0.007619           -0.170955  
QCISD(TQ)=FULL         -0.007621   -0.008012       -0.171668  
Coupled Cluster CCSD=FULL         -0.007523         -0.015405 -0.169409 -0.072006
CCSD(T)=FULL         -0.007623           -0.170930 -0.072814
STO-3G 3-21G 3-21G* 6-31G 6-31G* 6-31G** 6-31+G** 6-311G* 6-311G** 6-31G(2df,p) 6-311+G(3df,2p) TZVP