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

For CH3CHNH (ethanimine)

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
Moller Plesset perturbation MP2=FULL -0.001089 -0.005003 -0.005003 -0.003741 -0.012710 -0.013592 -0.013910 -0.055691 -0.056399 -0.024074 -0.051108 -0.007468 -0.045459 -0.008520 -0.053076
MP3=FULL         -0.012453   -0.013658                
MP4=FULL   -0.004770     -0.012480       -0.058686     -0.006990 -0.046915 -0.008040 -0.055188
Coupled Cluster CCSD=FULL                           -0.007885 -0.054676
CCSD(T)=FULL         -0.012455           -0.053590 -0.006954 -0.046842 -0.007999 -0.055109
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