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

For C4F4 (tetrafluorcyclobutadiene)

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 aug-cc-pVTZ
Moller Plesset perturbation MP2=FULL -0.001773 -0.014105 -0.014105 -0.009636 -0.029818 -0.029818 -0.031786 -0.150715 -0.150715 -0.057040 -0.136161 -0.017799 -0.110609 -0.021625 -0.128847
MP4=FULL   -0.013217     -0.029016       -0.154841     -0.016523 -0.111533 -0.020302 -0.133151
Coupled Cluster CCSD=FULL         -0.028614           -0.140256 -0.016188 -0.110586 -0.019975  
CCSD(T)=FULL         -0.028839           -0.141008 -0.016394 -0.111418 -0.020200  
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 aug-cc-pVTZ