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

For CH3OCl (methyl hypochlorite)

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
Moller Plesset perturbation MP2=FULL -0.000589 -0.007861 -0.015321 -0.005114 -0.017496 -0.018036 -0.019034 -0.086256 -0.086706 -0.035714 -0.010938 -0.062430
MP3=FULL         -0.016382   -0.027375          
Coupled Cluster CCSD(T)=FULL         -0.016473           -0.009901 -0.061784
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