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

For H2CONH2+ (protonated formamide)

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 -0.000774 -0.005300 -0.005300 -0.003555 -0.010964 -0.011609 -0.012061 -0.056239 -0.056836 -0.024275 -0.051552 -0.007342 -0.044231 -0.088231 -0.008453 -0.050759 -0.090007
MP4=FULL   -0.005021     -0.010584       -0.058596     -0.006838 -0.045138   -0.007945 -0.052157  
Coupled Cluster CCSD=FULL         -0.010430           -0.053276 -0.006719 -0.044714 -0.090913 -0.007807 -0.051720  
CCSD(T)=FULL         -0.010551           -0.053569 -0.006805 -0.045085 -0.091720 -0.007906 -0.052102 -0.065966
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