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All results from a given calculation for HSCN (thiocyanic acid)

using model chemistry: HF/6-31G**

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States and conformations

State Conformation minimum conformation conformer description state description
1 1 yes CS 1A'
Energy calculated at HF/6-31G**
 hartrees
Energy at 0K-490.388397
Energy at 298.15K-490.389115
HF Energy-490.388397
Nuclear repulsion energy79.036765
The energy at 298.15K was derived from the energy at 0K and an integrated heat capacity that used the calculated vibrational frequencies.
Vibrational Frequencies calculated at HF/6-31G**
Mode Number Symmetry Frequency
(cm-1)
Scaled Frequency
(cm-1)
IR Intensities
(km mol-1)
Raman Act
4/u)
Dep P Dep U
1 A' 2898 2616 0.23      
2 A' 2569 2319 18.61      
3 A' 1092 986 17.16      
4 A' 738 666 3.60      
5 A' 377 341 7.11      
6 A" 441 398 5.39      

Unscaled Zero Point Vibrational Energy (zpe) 4057.4 cm-1
Scaled (by 0.9026) Zero Point Vibrational Energy (zpe) 3662.2 cm-1
See section III.C.1 List or set vibrational scaling factors to change the scale factors used here.
See section III.C.2 Calculate a vibrational scaling factor for a given set of molecules to determine the least squares best scaling factor.
Rotational Constants (cm-1) from geometry optimized at HF/6-31G**
ABC
9.95330 0.19382 0.19011

See section I.F.4 to change rotational constant units
Geometric Data calculated at HF/6-31G**

Point Group is Cs

Cartesians (Å)
Atom x (Å) y (Å) z (Å)
S1 -0.079 -0.999 0.000
C2 0.000 0.709 0.000
N3 0.005 1.845 0.000
H4 1.234 -1.189 0.000

Atom - Atom Distances (Å)
  S1 C2 N3 H4
S11.70902.84461.3271
C21.70901.13622.2637
N32.84461.13623.2735
H41.32712.26373.2735

picture of thiocyanic acid state 1 conformation 1
More geometry information
Calculated Bond Angles
atom1 atom2 atom3 angle atom1 atom2 atom3 angle
S1 C2 N3 177.587 C2 S1 H4 95.601
Electronic energy levels
Charges, Dipole, Quadrupole and Polarizability
Charges from optimized geometry at HF/6-31G** Charges (e)
Number Element Mulliken CHELPG AIM ESP
1 S 0.180      
2 C 0.089      
3 N -0.364      
4 H 0.095      


Electric dipole moments
Electric dipole components in Debye
(What's a Debye? See section VII.A.3)
  x y z Total
  1.062 -3.298 0.000 3.465
CHELPG        
AIM        
ESP        


Electric Quadrupole moment
Quadrupole components in D Å
Primitive
 xyz
x -22.184 -1.859 0.000
y -1.859 -28.884 0.000
z 0.000 0.000 -25.601
Traceless
 xyz
x 5.058 -1.859 0.000
y -1.859 -4.992 0.000
z 0.000 0.000 -0.067
Polar
3z2-r2-0.134
x2-y26.700
xy-1.859
xz0.000
yz0.000


Polarizabilities
Components of the polarizability tensor.
Units are Å3 (Angstrom cubed)
Change units.
  x y z
x 3.133 -0.241 0.000
y -0.241 6.149 0.000
z 0.000 0.000 2.533


<r2> (average value of r2) Å2
<r2> 61.789
(<r2>)1/2 7.861