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All results from a given calculation for C4H6O2 (2-Propenoic acid, methyl ester)

using model chemistry: HF/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 HF/6-31G*
 hartrees
Energy at 0K-304.680672
Energy at 298.15K-304.687611
HF Energy-304.680672
Nuclear repulsion energy229.744123
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 HF/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 3443 3094 4.60      
2 A 3397 3052 4.32      
3 A 3352 3012 8.93      
4 A 3349 3009 29.55      
5 A 3332 2994 31.79      
6 A 3252 2922 37.55      
7 A 1997 1794 269.45      
8 A 1864 1675 54.44      
9 A 1649 1482 5.91      
10 A 1643 1476 4.06      
11 A 1634 1468 27.54      
12 A 1577 1417 123.50      
13 A 1464 1315 223.32      
14 A 1384 1244 388.66      
15 A 1337 1201 38.62      
16 A 1299 1167 3.71      
17 A 1181 1061 3.32      
18 A 1147 1030 33.64      
19 A 1139 1024 23.45      
20 A 1124 1010 23.97      
21 A 957 859 11.68      
22 A 920 827 51.49      
23 A 730 656 10.12      
24 A 578 519 0.89      
25 A 508 456 2.14      
26 A 370 333 19.49      
27 A 240 215 5.36      
28 A 205 184 4.92      
29 A 164 147 0.75      
30 A 96 87 3.77      

Unscaled Zero Point Vibrational Energy (zpe) 22664.7 cm-1
Scaled (by 0.8985) Zero Point Vibrational Energy (zpe) 20364.2 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 HF/6-31G*
ABC
0.35469 0.07832 0.06493

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

Point Group is C1

Cartesians (Å)
Atom x (Å) y (Å) z (Å)
H1 -2.998 -0.908 -0.002
H2 -2.420 0.520 -0.879
H3 -2.422 0.515 0.883
C4 -2.290 -0.094 0.000
O5 -1.008 -0.696 0.000
O6 -0.055 1.305 -0.000
C7 0.037 0.118 -0.001
H8 1.238 -1.714 -0.001
C9 1.313 -0.643 -0.000
H10 3.402 -0.549 0.001
H11 2.515 1.061 0.001
C12 2.471 -0.013 0.001

Atom - Atom Distances (Å)
  H1 H2 H3 C4 O5 O6 C7 H8 C9 H10 H11 C12
H11.77241.77231.07872.00073.68183.20304.31214.31856.41015.85365.5418
H21.77241.76181.08042.06032.64222.63964.37544.00695.98455.04174.9980
H31.77231.76181.08042.06042.64662.64244.37584.00845.98595.04434.9999
C41.07871.08041.08041.41602.63652.33603.88233.64405.71034.94154.7618
O52.00072.06032.06041.41602.21651.32452.46642.32154.41303.93693.5461
O63.68182.64222.64662.63652.21651.19053.28422.37983.92302.58142.8491
C73.20302.63962.64242.33601.32451.19052.19081.48553.43122.65162.4382
H84.31214.37544.37583.88232.46643.28422.19081.07382.45763.05442.1013
C94.31854.00694.00843.64402.32152.37981.48551.07382.09182.08511.3190
H106.41015.98455.98595.71034.41303.92303.43122.45762.09181.83841.0746
H115.85365.04175.04434.94153.93692.58142.65163.05442.08511.83841.0742
C125.54184.99804.99994.76183.54612.84912.43822.10131.31901.07461.0742

picture of 2-Propenoic acid, methyl ester state 1 conformation 1
More geometry information
Calculated Bond Angles
atom1 atom2 atom3 angle atom1 atom2 atom3 angle
H1 C4 H2 110.344 H1 C4 H3 110.335
H1 C4 O5 105.849 H2 C4 H3 109.237
H2 C4 O5 110.520 H3 C4 O5 110.522
C4 O5 C7 116.909 O5 C7 O6 123.511
O5 C7 C9 111.282 O6 C7 C9 125.207
C7 C9 H8 116.828 C7 C9 C12 120.659
H8 C9 C12 122.512 C9 C12 H10 121.493
C9 C12 H11 120.869 H10 C12 H11 117.637
Electronic energy levels
Charges, Dipole, Quadrupole and Polarizability
Charges from optimized geometry at HF/6-31G* Charges (e)
Number Element Mulliken CHELPG AIM ESP
1 H 0.184      
2 H 0.184      
3 H 0.184      
4 C -0.186      
5 O -0.618      
6 O -0.585      
7 C 0.792      
8 H 0.220      
9 C -0.257      
10 H 0.198      
11 H 0.228      
12 C -0.344      


Electric dipole moments
Electric dipole components in Debye
(What's a Debye? See section VII.A.3)
  x y z Total
  -0.056 -1.636 0.000 1.637
CHELPG 0.075 -1.653 -0.001 1.655
AIM        
ESP 0.035 -1.632 -0.001 1.632


Electric Quadrupole moment
Quadrupole components in D Å
Primitive
 xyz
x -25.088 0.643 0.002
y 0.643 -39.036 -0.007
z 0.002 -0.007 -35.964
Traceless
 xyz
x 12.412 0.643 0.002
y 0.643 -8.510 -0.007
z 0.002 -0.007 -3.902
Polar
3z2-r2-7.805
x2-y213.948
xy0.643
xz0.002
yz-0.007


Polarizabilities
Components of the polarizability tensor.
Units are Å3 (Angstrom cubed)
Change units.
  x y z
x 9.352 -0.629 0.004
y -0.629 6.321 -0.003
z 0.004 -0.003 3.653


<r2> (average value of r2) Å2
<r2> 174.976
(<r2>)1/2 13.228