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

For H3CO3+ (carbonic acid, protonated)

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 -0.000727 -0.007225 -0.007225 -0.004548 -0.013302 -0.013704 -0.014400 -0.075354 -0.075692 -0.031777 -0.068729 -0.009327 -0.056394 -0.010993 -0.064733
MP3=FULL         -0.012635   -0.022091                
Coupled Cluster CCSD(T)=FULL         -0.012668           -0.070985 -0.008582 -0.056931 -0.010233 -0.065859
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