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

For SiC- (silicon monocarbide anion)

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 aug-cc-pVTZ
Moller Plesset perturbation MP2=FULL -0.002449 -0.007301 -0.014424 -0.004973 -0.043390 -0.014972 -0.016177 -0.169880 -0.142255 -0.025768 -0.007976 -0.066224 -0.069808
MP3=FULL         -0.001897   -0.035418            
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 aug-cc-pVTZ