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

For CH3CBr3 (1,1,1-tribromoethane)

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 -0.000968 -0.013518 -0.034855 -0.035325 -0.093925 -0.094535 -0.097587 -1.221571 -1.222053 -0.273849 -0.232323 -0.029675 -0.171269 -0.038074 -0.195901
MP3=FULL         -0.088070   -0.152732                
MP4=FULL   -0.012910     -0.091221       -1.152873     -0.028175   -0.038168  
Coupled Cluster CCSD=FULL         -0.088491                    
CCSD(T)=FULL         77.062830                    
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