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All results from a given calculation for H2OHCOOH (Water formic acid dimer 1)

using model chemistry: MP2_cp_opt/6-31G*

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_cp_opt/6-31G*
 hartrees
Energy at 0K-265.443396
Energy at 298.15K-265.446911
Nuclear repulsion energy69.582128
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_cp_opt/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 3911 3688 66.44      
2 A 3771 3556 15.92      
3 A 3687 3477 68.25      
4 A 3200 3018 11.27      
5 A 1836 1731 246.67      
6 A 1738 1639 139.22      
7 A 1446 1364 7.36      
8 A 1324 1248 5.77      
9 A 1141 1076 278.59      
10 A 1074 1013 3.36      
11 A 703 663 178.83      
12 A 626 590 43.36      
13 A 316 298 118.34      
14 A 270 254 161.56      
15 A 122 115 2.09      
16 A 81 77 135.13      
17 A 73 69 50.18      
18 A 54 51 10.79      

Unscaled Zero Point Vibrational Energy (zpe) 12686.7 cm-1
Scaled (by 0.943) Zero Point Vibrational Energy (zpe) 11963.6 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_cp_opt/6-31G*
ABC
0.66211 0.09262 0.08126

See section I.F.4 to change rotational constant units
Geometric Data calculated at MP2_cp_opt/6-31G*

Point Group is C1

Cartesians (Å)
Atom x (Å) y (Å) z (Å)
H1 1.939 0.517 -0.003
O2 2.392 -0.341 -0.014
O3 -0.278 0.954 0.001
H4 3.331 -0.125 0.081
H5 -1.034 1.578 -0.009
C6 -0.826 -0.292 0.005
O7 -2.020 -0.509 -0.002
H8 -0.030 -1.042 0.016

Atom - Atom Distances (Å)
  H1 O2 O3 H4 H5 C6 O7 H8
H10.97032.26001.53513.15682.88134.08962.5109
O20.97032.96800.96813.92713.21904.41522.5211
O32.26002.96803.76800.98011.36122.27442.0113
H41.53510.96813.76804.68644.16155.36533.4840
H53.15683.92710.98014.68641.88132.30762.8057
C62.88133.21901.36124.16151.88131.21301.0943
O74.08964.41522.27445.36532.30761.21302.0606
H82.51092.52112.01133.48402.80571.09432.0606

picture of Water formic acid dimer 1 state 1 conformation 1
More geometry information
Calculated Bond Angles
atom1 atom2 atom3 angle atom1 atom2 atom3 angle
H1 O2 H4 104.732 H1 O3 H5 151.616
H1 O3 C6 102.592 O2 H1 O3 128.992
O3 C6 O7 124.038 O3 C6 H8 109.512
H5 O3 C6 105.785 O7 C6 H8 126.450
Electronic energy levels
Charges, Dipole, Quadrupole and Polarizability
Charges from optimized geometry at MP2_cp_opt/6-31G* Charges (e)
Number Element Mulliken CHELPG AIM ESP
1 H 0.000      
2 O 0.000      
3 O -0.682      
4 H 0.000      
5 H 0.467      
6 C 0.545      
7 O -0.525      
8 H 0.196      


Electric dipole moments
Electric dipole components in Debye
(What's a Debye? See section VII.A.3)
  x y z Total
  2.272 2.650 0.202 3.497
CHELPG        
AIM        
ESP        


Electric Quadrupole moment
Quadrupole components in D Å
Primitive
 xyz
x -23.123 -5.006 0.003
y -5.006 -14.377 -0.048
z 0.003 -0.048 -16.744
Traceless
 xyz
x -7.562 -5.006 0.003
y -5.006 5.556 -0.048
z 0.003 -0.048 2.006
Polar
3z2-r24.013
x2-y2-8.745
xy-5.006
xz0.003
yz-0.048


Polarizabilities
Components of the polarizability tensor.
Units are Å3 (Angstrom cubed)
Change units.
  x y z
x 3.045 0.198 0.011
y 0.198 2.874 -0.009
z 0.011 -0.009 1.293


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