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

For FONO (Nitrosyl hypofluorite)

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 -0.000413 -0.007239 -0.007239 -0.004277 -0.010219 -0.010219 -0.011634 -0.074505 -0.074505 -0.026524 -0.067968 -0.008312 -0.050754 -0.009507 -0.058185
MP3=FULL         -0.009446   -0.010878       -0.069664 -0.007584 -0.050951    
MP4=FULL   -0.006683     -0.009370       -0.075631     -0.007504 -0.050347 -0.008658 -0.058057
B2PLYP=FULL -0.000120 -0.002113 -0.002113 -0.001242 -0.002979 -0.002979 -0.003393 -0.020986 -0.020986 -0.007624 -0.019175 -0.002416 -0.014601 -0.002767 -0.016713
Quadratic configuration interaction QCISD(T)=FULL         -0.009353             -0.007469 -0.050593 -0.008633 -0.058543
Coupled Cluster CCSD=FULL         -0.009268         -0.026101 -0.069359 -0.007374 -0.050282 -0.008534 -0.058369
CCSD(T)=FULL         -0.009377           -0.069724 -0.007483 -0.050670 -0.008649 -0.058658
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