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

For C2H7+ (Ethane, 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 cc-pVQZ aug-cc-pVDZ aug-cc-pVTZ aug-cc-pVQZ
Moller Plesset perturbation MP2=FULL -0.000858 -0.003113 -0.003113 -0.002529 -0.008931 -0.010199 -0.010282 -0.036449 -0.037474 -0.014919 -0.033813 -0.005394 -0.032425 -0.057000 -0.006012 -0.037533 -0.058281
MP3=FULL         -0.008859   -0.011417                    
Coupled Cluster CCSD(T)=FULL         -0.008856           -0.035631 -0.005072 -0.033685 -0.059985 -0.005692 -0.039242  
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 cc-pVQZ aug-cc-pVDZ aug-cc-pVTZ aug-cc-pVQZ