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All results from a given calculation for H2OHCOOH (Water formic acid dimer 2)

using model chemistry: MP2/3-21G

19 10 17 12 22

States and conformations

State Conformation minimum conformation conformer description state description
1 1 yes C1 1A
Energy calculated at MP2/3-21G
 hartrees
Energy at 0K-263.760169
Energy at 298.15K-263.764804
HF Energy-263.295815
Counterpoise corrected energy-263.748910
CP Energy at 298.15K-263.752338
Counterpoise optimized geometry corrected energy 
CP opt. Energy at 298.15K 
Nuclear repulsion energy117.344208
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 MP2/3-21G
Mode Number Symmetry Frequency
(cm-1)
Scaled Frequency
(cm-1)
IR Intensities
(km mol-1)
Raman Act
4/u)
Dep P Dep U
18 A 3647 3481 33.59      
17 A 3497 3338 26.53      
16 A 3490 3331 41.34      
15 A 3234 3087 4.70      
14 A 1750 1670 52.47      
13 A 1665 1589 177.12      
12 A 1434 1369 11.52      
11 A 1357 1295 8.39      
10 A 1151 1099 9.80      
9 A 1081 1032 209.97      
8 A 690 659 201.42      
7 A 644 615 252.45      
6 A 614 586 299.61      
5 A 330 315 109.06      
4 A 279 267 122.84      
3 A 223 213 0.16      
2 A 160 153 26.41      
1 A 145 138 13.28      

Unscaled Zero Point Vibrational Energy (zpe) 12696.1 cm-1
Scaled (by 0.9545) Zero Point Vibrational Energy (zpe) 12118.4 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 MP2/3-21G
ABC
0.64509 0.10435 0.09059

See section I.F.4 to change rotational constant units
Geometric Data calculated at MP2/3-21G

Point Group is C1

Cartesians (Å)
Atom x (Å) y (Å) z (Å)
H1 -1.746 0.506 -0.141
O2 -2.267 -0.336 -0.092
O3 0.190 1.041 0.009
H4 -2.669 -0.350 0.811
C5 0.576 -0.141 -0.013
O6 1.898 -0.529 0.011
H7 -0.085 -0.999 -0.054
H8 2.475 0.283 0.041

Atom - Atom Distances (Å)
  H1 O2 O3 H4 C5 O6 H7 H8
H10.99182.01441.57862.41333.79082.24324.2308
O20.99182.81880.98872.85034.17032.28074.7842
O32.01442.81883.27951.24352.31992.05992.4076
H41.57860.98873.27953.35424.63982.80145.2401
C52.41332.85031.24353.35421.37821.08381.9471
O63.79084.17032.31994.63981.37822.03860.9973
H72.24322.28072.05992.80141.08382.03862.8649
H84.23084.78422.40765.24011.94710.99732.8649

picture of Water formic acid dimer 2 state 1 conformation 1
More geometry information
Calculated Bond Angles
atom1 atom2 atom3 angle atom1 atom2 atom3 angle
H1 O2 H4 105.702 H1 O3 C5 92.517
O2 H1 O3 136.633 O3 C5 O6 124.394
O3 C5 H7 124.380 C5 O6 H8 109.048
O6 C5 H7 111.226
Electronic energy levels
Charges, Dipole, Quadrupole and Polarizability
Charges from optimized geometry at MP2/3-21G Charges (e)
Number Element Mulliken CHELPG AIM ESP
1 H 0.398      
2 O -0.757      
3 O -0.611      
4 H 0.358      
5 C 0.591      
6 O -0.679      
7 H 0.288      
8 H 0.411      


Electric dipole moments
Electric dipole components in Debye
(What's a Debye? See section VII.A.3)
  x y z Total
  1.283 0.442 1.677 2.157
CHELPG        
AIM        
ESP        


Electric Quadrupole moment
Quadrupole components in D Å
Primitive
 xyz
x -21.115 1.424 -4.724
y 1.424 -26.558 -0.834
z -4.724 -0.834 -21.932
Traceless
 xyz
x 3.129 1.424 -4.724
y 1.424 -5.034 -0.834
z -4.724 -0.834 1.905
Polar
3z2-r23.809
x2-y25.442
xy1.424
xz-4.724
yz-0.834


Polarizabilities
Components of the polarizability tensor.
Units are Å3 (Angstrom cubed)
Change units.
  x y z
x 3.546 -0.555 -0.339
y -0.555 1.619 0.145
z -0.339 0.145 3.227


<r2> (average value of r2) Å2
<r2> 117.143
(<r2>)1/2 10.823