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

For CH3CN- (acetonitrile 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) 6-311+G(3df,2p) TZVP cc-pVDZ cc-pVTZ cc-pVQZ aug-cc-pVDZ aug-cc-pVTZ aug-cc-pVQZ daug-cc-pVDZ daug-cc-pVTZ
Moller Plesset perturbation MP2=FULL -0.001985 -0.003976 -0.003976 -0.003614 -0.012433 -0.012948 -0.013895 -0.055391 -0.055794 -0.022582 -0.066359 -0.050760 -0.006868 -0.043661 -0.084514 -0.008313 -0.051495 -0.086423 -0.008613 -0.053612
MP3=FULL         -0.012149   -0.013674       -0.068929 -0.053183   -0.016792         -0.008178  
MP4=FULL   -0.004697     -0.012177       -0.058015   -0.069517   -0.006373 -0.043250   -0.007834 -0.053505   -0.008137 -0.055830
B2PLYP=FULL -0.000273 -0.001447 -0.001447 -0.001073 -0.003650 -0.003795 -0.004107 -0.015795 -0.015917 -0.006497 -0.019080 -0.014491 -0.002027 -0.012190   -0.002479 -0.014946   -0.002567 -0.015551
Quadratic configuration interaction QCISD(T)=FULL                     -0.069344   -0.006525 -0.044679   -0.007790 -0.053479   -0.008094 -0.055819
Coupled Cluster CCSD=FULL         -0.011923         -0.022289 -0.068659 -0.052796 -0.006190 -0.042494   -0.007679     -0.007976  
CCSD(T)=FULL         -0.012075           -0.069330 -0.053141 -0.006290 -0.042935   -0.007793 -0.053486   -0.008096 -0.055824
STO-3G 3-21G 3-21G* 6-31G 6-31G* 6-31G** 6-31+G** 6-311G* 6-311G** 6-31G(2df,p) 6-311+G(3df,2p) TZVP cc-pVDZ cc-pVTZ cc-pVQZ aug-cc-pVDZ aug-cc-pVTZ aug-cc-pVQZ daug-cc-pVDZ daug-cc-pVTZ