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

For CH3CF2Cl (1-Chloro-1,1-Difluoroethane)

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 -0.000986 -0.011459 -0.018965 -0.007585 -0.024629 -0.025194 -0.026889 -0.124225 -0.124675 -0.048937 -0.015557 -0.091051
MP3=FULL         -0.023190   -0.049191          
Coupled Cluster CCSD(T)=FULL         -0.023409           -0.014177 -0.050288
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