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All results from a given calculation for HCOOHH2O (Formic acid water dimer)

using model chemistry: B3LYP/TZVP

19 10 17 12 22

States and conformations

State Conformation minimum conformation conformer description state description
1 1 yes C1 1A
Energy calculated at B3LYP/TZVP
 hartrees
Energy at 0K-266.317327
Energy at 298.15K-266.322218
HF Energy-266.317327
Counterpoise corrected energy 
CP Energy at 298.15K 
Counterpoise optimized geometry corrected energy 
CP opt. Energy at 298.15K 
Nuclear repulsion energy124.224985
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 B3LYP/TZVP
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 3869 3735 85.47      
2 A 3661 3535 190.48      
3 A 3318 3203 606.01      
4 A 3056 2951 81.71      
5 A 1775 1713 341.20      
6 A 1606 1550 139.38      
7 A 1459 1409 1.43      
8 A 1393 1345 15.70      
9 A 1212 1171 235.83      
10 A 1068 1032 12.66      
11 A 934 901 159.24      
12 A 701 677 39.99      
13 A 597 576 178.18      
14 A 380 367 90.64      
15 A 265 256 98.54      
16 A 230 222 31.74      
17 A 194 187 56.38      
18 A 173 167 10.57      

Unscaled Zero Point Vibrational Energy (zpe) 12945.7 cm-1
Scaled (by 0.9654) Zero Point Vibrational Energy (zpe) 12497.8 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 B3LYP/TZVP
ABC
0.39387 0.16637 0.11764

See section I.F.4 to change rotational constant units
Geometric Data calculated at B3LYP/TZVP

Point Group is C1

Cartesians (Å)
Atom x (Å) y (Å) z (Å)
H1 0.408 0.966 -0.002
O2 -0.571 1.131 0.006
O3 1.888 -0.000 -0.084
C4 -1.201 -0.036 0.009
O5 -0.675 -1.126 0.004
H6 -2.289 0.107 0.017
H7 2.596 -0.085 0.563
H8 1.355 -0.813 -0.037

Atom - Atom Distances (Å)
  H1 O2 O3 C4 O5 H6 H7 H8
H10.99251.76951.89552.35602.83012.49252.0155
O20.99252.70831.32662.26032.00033.43792.7370
O31.76952.70833.09112.80124.17940.96260.9730
C41.89551.32663.09111.21101.09663.83822.6724
O52.35602.26032.80121.21102.03093.47852.0548
H62.83012.00034.17941.09662.03094.91913.7584
H72.49253.43790.96263.83823.47854.91911.5590
H82.01552.73700.97302.67242.05483.75841.5590

picture of Formic acid water dimer state 1 conformation 1
More geometry information
Calculated Bond Angles
atom1 atom2 atom3 angle atom1 atom2 atom3 angle
H1 O2 C4 108.778 H1 O3 H7 129.237
H1 O3 H8 89.741 O2 H1 O3 156.388
O2 C4 O5 125.864 O2 C4 H6 110.913
O5 C4 H6 123.222 H7 O3 H8 107.314
Electronic energy levels
Charges, Dipole, Quadrupole and Polarizability
Charges from optimized geometry at B3LYP/TZVP Charges (e)
Number Element Mulliken CHELPG AIM ESP
1 H 0.315      
2 O -0.290      
3 O -0.570      
4 C 0.242      
5 O -0.391      
6 H 0.102      
7 H 0.289      
8 H 0.304      


Electric dipole moments
Electric dipole components in Debye
(What's a Debye? See section VII.A.3)
  x y z Total
  0.892 0.104 1.266 1.553
CHELPG        
AIM        
ESP        


Electric Quadrupole moment
Quadrupole components in D Å
Primitive
 xyz
x -17.195 -1.764 3.617
y -1.764 -28.206 -0.055
z 3.617 -0.055 -23.764
Traceless
 xyz
x 8.790 -1.764 3.617
y -1.764 -7.727 -0.055
z 3.617 -0.055 -1.064
Polar
3z2-r2-2.127
x2-y211.011
xy-1.764
xz3.617
yz-0.055


Polarizabilities
Components of the polarizability tensor.
Units are Å3 (Angstrom cubed)
Change units.
  x y z
x 4.901 -0.206 0.167
y -0.206 4.423 0.007
z 0.167 0.007 2.586


<r2> (average value of r2) Å2
<r2> 94.203
(<r2>)1/2 9.706