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

For C5H8 (1,3-Pentadiene, (Z)-)

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 cc-pV(T+d)Z
Moller Plesset perturbation MP2=FULL -0.002251 -0.008281 -0.008281 -0.006677 -0.025668 -0.025308 -0.025724 -0.094590 -0.093949 -0.038436 -0.084973 -0.012733 -0.078594 -0.078594
MP3=FULL         -0.022044   -0.036289              
Coupled Cluster CCSD(T)=FULL         -0.023737               -0.080895  
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 cc-pV(T+d)Z