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All results from a given calculation for HOCH2COOH (Hydroxyacetic acid)

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

19 10 17 12 22

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-304.240713
Energy at 298.15K-304.246340
HF Energy-304.240713
Nuclear repulsion energy180.319598
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' 3820 3636 85.82      
2 A' 3795 3612 88.23      
3 A' 3055 2908 28.53      
4 A' 1850 1761 329.96      
5 A' 1498 1425 5.60      
6 A' 1482 1411 13.76      
7 A' 1363 1297 160.80      
8 A' 1293 1231 21.93      
9 A' 1197 1140 110.21      
10 A' 1150 1095 244.91      
11 A' 877 834 44.24      
12 A' 655 623 17.64      
13 A' 477 454 28.77      
14 A' 281 268 9.29      
15 A" 3090 2941 10.92      
16 A" 1256 1195 0.42      
17 A" 1039 989 1.77      
18 A" 660 628 137.80      
19 A" 510 486 8.58      
20 A" 333 317 97.47      
21 A" 82 78 15.03      

Unscaled Zero Point Vibrational Energy (zpe) 14882.5 cm-1
Scaled (by 0.9518) Zero Point Vibrational Energy (zpe) 14165.2 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 mPW1PW91/6-31+G**
ABC
0.35898 0.13619 0.10059

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)
C1 -0.602 -0.860 0.000
C2 0.000 0.521 0.000
O3 -0.920 1.492 0.000
O4 1.194 0.723 0.000
O5 0.391 -1.841 0.000
H6 -1.247 -0.954 0.883
H7 -1.247 -0.954 -0.883
H8 1.244 -1.384 0.000
H9 -0.453 2.341 0.000

Atom - Atom Distances (Å)
  C1 C2 O3 O4 O5 H6 H7 H8 H9
C11.50732.37372.39431.39591.09751.09751.91903.2045
C21.50731.33711.21062.39482.12432.12432.27541.8750
O32.37371.33712.24883.58172.62152.62153.59890.9683
O42.39431.21062.24882.68713.09043.09042.10762.3086
O51.39592.39483.58172.68712.06132.06130.96804.2663
H61.09752.12432.62153.09042.06131.76642.67753.5024
H71.09752.12432.62153.09042.06131.76642.67753.5024
H81.91902.27543.59892.10760.96802.67752.67754.0931
H93.20451.87500.96832.30864.26633.50243.50244.0931

picture of Hydroxyacetic acid state 1 conformation 1
More geometry information
Calculated Bond Angles
atom1 atom2 atom3 angle atom1 atom2 atom3 angle
C1 C2 O3 112.993 C1 C2 O4 123.144
C1 O5 H8 107.156 C2 C1 O5 111.094
C2 C1 H6 108.256 C2 C1 H7 108.256
C2 O3 H9 107.763 O3 C2 O4 123.863
O5 C1 H6 110.959 O5 C1 H7 110.959
H6 C1 H7 107.173
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 C -0.104      
2 C 0.373      
3 O -0.422      
4 O -0.475      
5 O -0.497      
6 H 0.188      
7 H 0.188      
8 H 0.369      
9 H 0.379      


Electric dipole moments
Electric dipole components in Debye
(What's a Debye? See section VII.A.3)
  x y z Total
  -1.392 2.070 0.000 2.495
CHELPG        
AIM        
ESP        


Electric Quadrupole moment
Quadrupole components in D Å
Primitive
 xyz
x -30.905 -0.350 0.000
y -0.350 -29.387 0.000
z 0.000 0.000 -28.654
Traceless
 xyz
x -1.884 -0.350 0.000
y -0.350 0.393 0.000
z 0.000 0.000 1.491
Polar
3z2-r22.983
x2-y2-1.518
xy-0.350
xz0.000
yz0.000


Polarizabilities
Components of the polarizability tensor.
Units are Å3 (Angstrom cubed)
Change units.
  x y z
x 5.894 -0.097 0.000
y -0.097 5.786 0.000
z 0.000 0.000 3.818


<r2> (average value of r2) Å2
<r2> 110.905
(<r2>)1/2 10.531