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

using model chemistry: wB97X-D/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 wB97X-D/6-31G*
 hartrees
Energy at 0K-266.094431
Energy at 298.15K-266.098884
HF Energy-266.094431
Nuclear repulsion energy 
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 wB97X-D/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 3916 3714 72.40      
2 A 3770 3575 68.92      
3 A 3763 3569 103.99      
4 A 3164 3001 15.08      
5 A 1861 1765 362.79      
6 A 1747 1657 76.31      
7 A 1457 1382 5.35      
8 A 1360 1290 20.39      
9 A 1203 1141 212.76      
10 A 1108 1051 1.43      
11 A 725 687 176.21      
12 A 718 681 276.20      
13 A 643 610 127.39      
14 A 283 269 100.33      
15 A 223 212 112.35      
16 A 201 190 0.74      
17 A 143 136 12.99      
18 A 116 110 13.15      

Unscaled Zero Point Vibrational Energy (zpe) 13199.7 cm-1
Scaled (by 0.9485) Zero Point Vibrational Energy (zpe) 12520.0 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 wB97X-D/6-31G*
ABC
0.76223 0.09683 0.08660

See section I.F.4 to change rotational constant units
Geometric Data calculated at wB97X-D/6-31G*

Point Group is C1

Cartesians (Å)
Atom x (Å) y (Å) z (Å)
H1 -1.815 0.452 -0.098
O2 -2.425 -0.297 -0.095
O3 0.222 0.949 0.003
H4 -2.925 -0.203 0.721
C5 0.675 -0.169 0.011
O6 1.973 -0.467 0.004
H7 0.066 -1.082 0.028
H8 2.468 0.367 -0.013

Atom - Atom Distances (Å)
  H1 O2 O3 H4 C5 O6 H7 H8
H10.96622.09931.52722.56813.89912.42984.2843
O20.96622.92780.96173.10454.40282.61454.9387
O32.09932.92783.42771.20632.25212.03722.3198
H41.52720.96173.42773.66934.95743.19325.4725
C52.56813.10451.20633.66931.33211.09761.8717
O63.89914.40282.25214.95741.33212.00420.9704
H72.42982.61452.03723.19321.09762.00422.8058
H84.28434.93872.31985.47251.87170.97042.8058

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 104.775 H1 O3 C5 98.322
O2 H1 O3 142.812 O3 C5 O6 124.971
O3 C5 H7 124.251 C5 O6 H8 107.722
O6 C5 H7 110.778
Electronic energy levels
Charges, Dipole, Quadrupole and Polarizability
Charges from optimized geometry at wB97X-D/6-31G* Charges (e)
Number Element Mulliken CHELPG AIM ESP
1 H 0.426      
2 O -0.837      
3 O -0.455      
4 H 0.399      
5 C 0.372      
6 O -0.538      
7 H 0.201      
8 H 0.431      


Electric dipole moments
Electric dipole components in Debye
(What's a Debye? See section VII.A.3)
  x y z Total
  1.970 0.423 1.467 2.493
CHELPG        
AIM        
ESP        


Electric Quadrupole moment
Quadrupole components in D Å
Primitive
 xyz
x -21.599 0.900 -4.484
y 0.900 -25.143 -0.495
z -4.484 -0.495 -22.026
Traceless
 xyz
x 1.986 0.900 -4.484
y 0.900 -3.331 -0.495
z -4.484 -0.495 1.345
Polar
3z2-r22.690
x2-y23.545
xy0.900
xz-4.484
yz-0.495


Polarizabilities
Components of the polarizability tensor.
Units are Å3 (Angstrom cubed)
Change units.
  x y z
x 4.297 -0.083 -0.184
y -0.083 3.395 0.018
z -0.184 0.018 2.097


<r2> (average value of r2) Å2
<r2> 121.381
(<r2>)1/2 11.017