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All results from a given calculation for HOCN (cyanic acid)

using model chemistry: mPW1PW91/6-31+G**

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States and conformations

State Conformation minimum conformation conformer description state description
1 1 yes CS 1A'
Energy calculated at mPW1PW91/6-31+G**
 hartrees
Energy at 0K-168.598519
Energy at 298.15K-168.599450
Nuclear repulsion energy58.126972
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 mPW1PW91/6-31+G**
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' 3838 3653 172.17      
2 A' 2415 2298 145.21      
3 A' 1227 1167 92.10      
4 A' 1128 1073 82.84      
5 A' 454 433 16.22      
6 A" 515 490 2.71      

Unscaled Zero Point Vibrational Energy (zpe) 4787.7 cm-1
Scaled (by 0.9518) Zero Point Vibrational Energy (zpe) 4557.0 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 mPW1PW91/6-31+G**
ABC
22.69763 0.35371 0.34828

See section I.F.4 to change rotational constant units
Geometric Data calculated at mPW1PW91/6-31+G**

Point Group is Cs

Cartesians (Å)
Atom x (Å) y (Å) z (Å)
N1 0.056 1.338 0.000
C2 0.000 0.178 0.000
O3 -0.139 -1.110 0.000
H4 0.723 -1.549 0.000

Atom - Atom Distances (Å)
  N1 C2 O3 H4
N11.16182.45622.9629
C21.16181.29561.8716
O32.45621.29560.9667
H42.96291.87160.9667

picture of cyanic acid state 1 conformation 1
More geometry information
Calculated Bond Angles
atom1 atom2 atom3 angle atom1 atom2 atom3 angle
N1 C2 O3 176.584 C2 O3 H4 110.805
Electronic energy levels
Charges, Dipole, Quadrupole and Polarizability
Charges from optimized geometry at mPW1PW91/6-31+G** Charges (e)
Number Element Mulliken CHELPG AIM ESP
1 N -0.327      
2 C 0.459      
3 O -0.531      
4 H 0.399      


Electric dipole moments
Electric dipole components in Debye
(What's a Debye? See section VII.A.3)
  x y z Total
  1.544 -3.720 0.000 4.028
CHELPG        
AIM        
ESP        


Electric Quadrupole moment
Quadrupole components in D Å
Primitive
 xyz
x -15.369 -3.240 0.000
y -3.240 -18.636 0.000
z 0.000 0.000 -16.974
Traceless
 xyz
x 2.436 -3.240 0.000
y -3.240 -2.464 0.000
z 0.000 0.000 0.028
Polar
3z2-r20.056
x2-y23.267
xy-3.240
xz0.000
yz0.000


Polarizabilities
Components of the polarizability tensor.
Units are Å3 (Angstrom cubed)
Change units.
  x y z
x 2.027 -0.014 0.000
y -0.014 4.641 0.000
z 0.000 0.000 1.884


<r2> (average value of r2) Å2
<r2> 0.000
(<r2>)1/2 0.000