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

For CH3CHCH (1-propenyl radical)

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 cc-pVQZ aug-cc-pVDZ aug-cc-pVTZ aug-cc-pVQZ
Moller Plesset perturbation MP2=FULL -0.001185 -0.004778 -0.004778 -0.003801 -0.014015 -0.014891 -0.015118 -0.055288 -0.056001 -0.022098 -0.050677 -0.007366 -0.045951 -0.083889 -0.008294 -0.054105 -0.085927
MP4=FULL   -0.004612     -0.013938       -0.058623     -0.006958 -0.077297   -0.007878 -0.056554  
Coupled Cluster CCSD=FULL         -0.013648           -0.053043 -0.006753 -0.046829   -0.007648 -0.055634  
CCSD(T)=FULL         -0.013825           -0.053393 -0.006870 -0.047268   -0.007777 -0.056118  
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 cc-pVQZ aug-cc-pVDZ aug-cc-pVTZ aug-cc-pVQZ