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

For C7H7 (cycloheptatrienyl 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
Moller Plesset perturbation MP2=FULL -0.003069 -0.011778 -0.011778 -0.009532       -0.126330 -0.131888 -0.056082   -0.017768 -0.109806
MP3=FULL         -0.037625   -0.051589            
MP4=FULL   0.017375     -0.032653       -0.127242     -0.013824 -0.076016
B2PLYP=FULL -0.000946 -0.003533 -0.003533 -0.002851 -0.010358 -0.010464 -0.010659 -0.037462 -0.037744 -0.016163 -0.034163 -0.005252 -0.031554
Coupled Cluster CCSD(T)=FULL                       -0.016090  
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