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

For HOCHCCHOH (allenediol)

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 -0.001485 -0.008698 -0.008698 -0.006167 -0.019994 -0.020625 -0.021383 -0.093581 -0.094106 -0.037743 -0.085382 -0.011911 -0.072529 -0.013788 -0.084996
MP4=FULL   -0.008242     -0.019509       -0.097330     -0.011092 -0.074183    
Coupled Cluster CCSD=FULL         -0.019199           -0.088463 -0.010872 -0.073461    
CCSD(T)=FULL         -0.019437           -0.088994 -0.011027 -0.074078    
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