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

For CH3CHBrCH3 (i-propyl bromide)

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
Moller Plesset perturbation MP2=FULL -0.001421 -0.008352 -0.015372 -0.014902 -0.042135 -0.043463 -0.044543 -0.450553 -0.451587 -0.110712 -0.016142 -0.094913
MP3=FULL         -0.040061   -0.065585          
Coupled Cluster CCSD(T)=FULL         -0.040837           -0.015076 -0.090795
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