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

For C5H6O (2-methylfuran)

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
Moller Plesset perturbation MP2=FULL -0.002366 -0.010290 -0.010290 -0.007919 -0.027420 -0.028472 -0.029295 -0.112343 -0.113244 -0.047867 -0.102519 -0.015011 -0.091753 -0.017541
MP3=FULL         -0.026936   -0.042723              
Coupled Cluster CCSD(T)=FULL         -0.026990                 0.028397
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