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

For K2 (Potassium diatomic)

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
Moller Plesset perturbation MP2=FULL -0.030111 -0.002272 -0.006582 -0.000020 -0.000167 -0.000167 -0.000174 -0.214047 -0.214047 -0.001977 -0.064496
MP3=FULL         -0.000148   -0.000567        
MP4=FULL   -0.002413     -0.000161       -0.209343    
Coupled Cluster CCSD=FULL         -0.000154           -0.070793
CCSD(T)=FULL         -0.000162           -0.072036
STO-3G 3-21G 3-21G* 6-31G 6-31G* 6-31G** 6-31+G** 6-311G* 6-311G** 6-31G(2df,p) TZVP