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

For SO3- (Sulfur trioxide anion)

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 cc-pVQZ aug-cc-pVTZ aug-cc-pVQZ
Moller Plesset perturbation MP2=FULL -0.001012 -0.010835 -0.018758 -0.006577 -0.020719 -0.020719 -0.022326 -0.176597 -0.176597 -0.047478 -0.014054 -0.074724 -0.149792 -0.082886 -0.152861
MP3=FULL         -0.019517   -0.059950                
Coupled Cluster CCSD(T)=FULL         -0.019611                    
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 cc-pVQZ aug-cc-pVTZ aug-cc-pVQZ