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

For C5H5 (cyclopentadienyl radical)

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
Moller Plesset perturbation MP2=FULL -0.002163 -0.008309 -0.008309 -0.006675 -0.024305 -0.025128 -0.025580 -0.093225 -0.093968 -0.038451 -0.084904 -0.012372 -0.076902 -0.013978
MP3=FULL             -0.037012              
MP4=FULL   -0.008012     -0.024113                  
Coupled Cluster CCSD=FULL         -0.023701           -0.088827 -0.011351 -0.078644 -0.012910
CCSD(T)=FULL         -0.024007           -0.089429 -0.011543 -0.079339  
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