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All results from a given calculation for HOCH2COOH (Hydroxyacetic acid)

using model chemistry: PBEPBE/6-31G*

19 10 17 12 22

States and conformations

State Conformation minimum conformation conformer description state description
1 1 yes CS 1A
Energy calculated at PBEPBE/6-31G*
 hartrees
Energy at 0K-303.956666
Energy at 298.15K-303.962170
HF Energy-303.956666
Nuclear repulsion energy178.737809
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
1 A' 3561 3510 37.71      
2 A' 3513 3462 68.47      
3 A' 2933 2891 33.88      
4 A' 1779 1753 228.87      
5 A' 1478 1457 9.74      
6 A' 1450 1430 32.30      
7 A' 1346 1327 130.69      
8 A' 1272 1254 16.73      
9 A' 1154 1138 117.47      
10 A' 1102 1086 215.00      
11 A' 842 830 39.61      
12 A' 630 621 13.66      
13 A' 460 454 28.42      
14 A' 282 278 8.65      
15 A" 2951 2909 28.74      
16 A" 1206 1188 1.65      
17 A" 1013 998 0.75      
18 A" 666 657 128.16      
19 A" 492 485 1.30      
20 A" 331 326 71.09      
21 A" 67 66 11.94      

Unscaled Zero Point Vibrational Energy (zpe) 14263.3 cm-1
Scaled (by 0.9857) Zero Point Vibrational Energy (zpe) 14059.3 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
0.35157 0.13448 0.09910

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

Point Group is Cs

Cartesians (Å)
Atom x (Å) y (Å) z (Å)
C1 -0.615 -0.868 0.000
C2 0.000 0.522 0.000
O3 -0.923 1.513 0.000
O4 1.210 0.711 0.000
O5 0.389 -1.853 0.000
H6 -1.274 -0.956 0.889
H7 -1.274 -0.956 -0.889
H8 1.234 -1.344 0.000
H9 -0.410 2.355 0.000

Atom - Atom Distances (Å)
  C1 C2 O3 O4 O5 H6 H7 H8 H9
C11.51972.40102.41321.40621.11071.11071.90893.2293
C21.51971.35441.22492.40642.14432.14432.23701.8782
O32.40101.35442.27883.61272.64772.64773.57980.9858
O42.41321.22492.27882.69233.12123.12122.05532.3077
O51.40622.40643.61272.69232.08862.08860.98634.2829
H61.11072.14432.64773.12122.08861.77892.68933.5354
H71.11072.14432.64773.12122.08861.77892.68933.5354
H81.90892.23703.57982.05530.98632.68932.68934.0476
H93.22931.87820.98582.30774.28293.53543.53544.0476

picture of Hydroxyacetic acid state 1 conformation 1
More geometry information
Calculated Bond Angles
atom1 atom2 atom3 angle atom1 atom2 atom3 angle
C1 C2 O3 113.192 C1 C2 O4 122.748
C1 O5 H8 104.481 C2 C1 O5 110.601
C2 C1 H6 108.207 C2 C1 H7 108.207
C2 O3 H9 105.675 O3 C2 O4 124.060
O5 C1 H6 111.618 O5 C1 H7 111.618
H6 C1 H7 106.407
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 C -0.120      
2 C 0.481      
3 O -0.515      
4 O -0.431      
5 O -0.586      
6 H 0.180      
7 H 0.180      
8 H 0.401      
9 H 0.410      


Electric dipole moments
Electric dipole components in Debye
(What's a Debye? See section VII.A.3)
  x y z Total
  -1.087 2.156 0.000 2.414
CHELPG        
AIM        
ESP        


Electric Quadrupole moment
Quadrupole components in D Å
Primitive
 xyz
x -29.964 -0.274 0.000
y -0.274 -28.246 0.000
z 0.000 0.000 -28.076
Traceless
 xyz
x -1.803 -0.274 0.000
y -0.274 0.774 0.000
z 0.000 0.000 1.029
Polar
3z2-r22.058
x2-y2-1.719
xy-0.274
xz0.000
yz0.000


Polarizabilities
Components of the polarizability tensor.
Units are Å3 (Angstrom cubed)
Change units.
  x y z
x 5.375 -0.132 0.000
y -0.132 5.542 0.000
z 0.000 0.000 3.053


<r2> (average value of r2) Å2
<r2> 111.653
(<r2>)1/2 10.567