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

For C6H12 ((Z)-hex-3-ene)

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) TZVP cc-pVDZ cc-pVTZ aug-cc-pVDZ aug-cc-pVTZ
Moller Plesset perturbation MP2=FULL -0.002796 -0.009974 -0.009974 -0.008072 -0.028713 -0.030831 -0.031268 -0.111591 -0.113267 -0.050710 -0.102331 -0.015713 -0.095670 -0.018114 -0.113430
MP4=FULL   -0.009577     -0.028551       -0.118479     -0.014827 -0.099767    
B2PLYP=FULL -0.000847 -0.002989 -0.002989 -0.002414 -0.008497 -0.009103 -0.009231 -0.031958 -0.032460 -0.014714 -0.029343 -0.004689 -0.027756 -0.005392 -0.032798
Coupled Cluster CCSD=FULL         -0.028156           -0.107196 -0.014519 -0.098339    
CCSD(T)=FULL         -0.028495           -0.071769 -0.014758      
STO-3G 3-21G 3-21G* 6-31G 6-31G* 6-31G** 6-31+G** 6-311G* 6-311G** 6-31G(2df,p) TZVP cc-pVDZ cc-pVTZ aug-cc-pVDZ aug-cc-pVTZ