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

For C2H4O3 (1,2,3-trioxolane)

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 -0.001172 -0.008784 -0.008784 -0.005868 -0.017327 -0.018037 -0.019131 -0.093217 -0.093826 -0.038292 -0.085390 -0.011463 -0.070065 -0.145543 -0.013717 -0.082109 -0.148443
MP3=FULL         0.820414   0.857043                    
MP4=FULL   -0.008254     -0.016649       -0.096406     -0.010570 -0.071078   -0.012779 -0.083890  
Coupled Cluster CCSD=FULL         -0.016378           -0.087944 -0.010346 -0.070373   -0.012516 -0.083288  
CCSD(T)=FULL         -0.016576           -0.088445 -0.010503 -0.070965   -0.012702 -0.083030  
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