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

For CF3CH2Cl (2,2,2-Trifluoroethyl chloride)

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 -0.000996 -0.013347 -0.020830 -0.008648 -0.027161 -0.027545 -0.029618 -0.143213 -0.143562 -0.054936 -0.017551 -0.103905
MP3=FULL         -0.025537   -0.056234          
Coupled Cluster CCSD(T)=FULL         -0.025771           -0.015995 -0.103200
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