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

For CCl+ (carbon monochloride cation)

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) cc-pVDZ cc-pVTZ cc-pV(T+d)Z
Moller Plesset perturbation MP2=FULL -0.000516 -0.005895 -0.013420 -0.003919 -0.014226 -0.014226 -0.014948 -0.066921 -0.066921 -0.025832 -0.008005 -0.044714 -0.115925
MP3=FULL         -0.013174   -0.016727            
STO-3G 3-21G 3-21G* 6-31G 6-31G* 6-31G** 6-31+G** 6-311G* 6-311G** 6-31G(2df,p) cc-pVDZ cc-pVTZ cc-pV(T+d)Z