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

For C8H6 (Calicene)

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 -0.003652 -0.013645 -0.013645 -0.011077 -0.039639 -0.040618 -0.041537 -0.149881 -0.150877 -0.063379 -0.136431 -0.020084 -0.124525 -0.022989 -0.148986
MP3=FULL         -0.039145   -0.041080                
MP4=FULL   -0.013114     -0.039326       -0.157757     -0.018895 -0.095674    
B2PLYP=FULL -0.001109 -0.004097 -0.004097 -0.003317 -0.011745 -0.012028 -0.012300 -0.042967 -0.043269 -0.018563 -0.039133 -0.006014 -0.036228 -0.006878 -0.043171
Coupled Cluster CCSD=FULL         -0.038741           -0.142725 -0.018484 -0.127912    
CCSD(T)=FULL         -0.039214           -0.085785 -0.018759 -0.094310    
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