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

using model chemistry: PBEPBE_cp/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 PBEPBE_cp/6-31G*
 hartrees
Energy at 0K-265.883861
Energy at 298.15K-265.876619
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 PBEPBE/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
18 A 3707 3654 49.08      
17 A 3540 3489 83.87      
16 A 3534 3484 87.72      
15 A 3044 3001 15.92      
14 A 1760 1735 299.76      
13 A 1701 1677 60.42      
12 A 1356 1336 2.76      
11 A 1301 1283 8.61      
10 A 1124 1108 197.33      
9 A 1044 1029 4.83      
8 A 721 711 138.22      
7 A 633 624 156.03      
6 A 604 596 227.12      
5 A 284 280 83.92      
4 A 243 239 98.02      
3 A 185 182 1.99      
2 A 115 114 15.43      
1 A 110 108 7.29      

Unscaled Zero Point Vibrational Energy (zpe) 12503.0 cm-1
Scaled (by 0.9857) Zero Point Vibrational Energy (zpe) 12324.2 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 PBEPBE/6-31G*
ABC
0.73020 0.09705 0.08639

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

Point Group is C1

Cartesians (Å)
Atom x (Å) y (Å) z (Å)
H1 -1.727 0.435 -0.142
O2 -2.377 -0.304 -0.094
O3 0.197 0.974 0.004
H4 -2.694 -0.250 0.828
C5 0.638 -0.167 -0.006
O6 1.948 -0.481 0.009
H7 0.010 -1.077 -0.028
H8 2.434 0.378 0.024

Atom - Atom Distances (Å)
  H1 O2 O3 H4 C5 O6 H7 H8
H10.98472.00401.53112.44373.79092.30524.1649
O20.98472.87590.97693.01924.33042.50984.8609
O32.00402.87593.24651.22322.27722.06032.3149
H41.53110.97693.24653.43584.72022.95455.2292
C52.44373.01921.22323.43581.34811.10611.8777
O63.79094.33042.27724.72021.34812.02870.9877
H72.30522.50982.06032.95451.10612.02872.8285
H84.16494.86092.31495.22921.87770.98772.8285

picture of Water formic acid dimer 2 state 1 conformation 1
More geometry information
Electronic energy levels
Charges, Dipole, Quadrupole and Polarizability
Charges from optimized geometry at PBEPBE/6-31G* Charges (e)
Number Element Mulliken CHELPG AIM ESP
1 H 0.398      
2 O -0.787      
3 O -0.403      
4 H 0.374      
5 C 0.308      
6 O -0.475      
7 H 0.182      
8 H 0.402      


Electric dipole moments
Electric dipole components in Debye
(What's a Debye? See section VII.A.3)
  x y z Total
  2.118 0.416 1.455 2.603
CHELPG        
AIM        
ESP        


Electric Quadrupole moment
Quadrupole components in D Å


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


<r2> (average value of r2) Å2
<r2> 121.645
(<r2>)1/2 11.029