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

using model chemistry: B1B95/6-31G*

19 10 17 12 22

States and conformations

State Conformation minimum conformation conformer description state description
1 1 yes C1 1A
Energy calculated at B1B95/6-31G*
 hartrees
Energy at 0K-306.336364
Energy at 298.15K-306.342875
Nuclear repulsion energy228.610366
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 B1B95/6-31G*
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 3298 3131 3.08      
2 A 3244 3079 3.59      
3 A 3215 3052 17.44      
4 A 3202 3040 3.94      
5 A 3178 3017 19.43      
6 A 3097 2940 27.48      
7 A 1851 1758 176.10      
8 A 1740 1652 30.63      
9 A 1525 1447 6.83      
10 A 1508 1431 7.13      
11 A 1493 1417 42.64      
12 A 1454 1380 72.46      
13 A 1356 1287 152.29      
14 A 1265 1201 296.91      
15 A 1216 1154 8.95      
16 A 1190 1129 0.80      
17 A 1088 1033 4.61      
18 A 1073 1019 13.81      
19 A 1036 983 29.37      
20 A 1005 954 17.31      
21 A 891 846 9.85      
22 A 829 787 29.84      
23 A 677 643 5.71      
24 A 535 508 0.20      
25 A 478 453 1.26      
26 A 337 319 17.30      
27 A 216 205 4.15      
28 A 203 193 4.27      
29 A 100 95 3.25      
30 A 78 74 0.01      

Unscaled Zero Point Vibrational Energy (zpe) 21188.1 cm-1
Scaled (by 0.9493) Zero Point Vibrational Energy (zpe) 20113.9 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 B1B95/6-31G*
ABC
0.34649 0.07854 0.06480

See section I.F.4 to change rotational constant units
Geometric Data calculated at B1B95/6-31G*

Point Group is C1

Cartesians (Å)
Atom x (Å) y (Å) z (Å)
H1 -3.021 -0.875 -0.004
H2 -2.387 0.551 -0.884
H3 -2.390 0.545 0.888
C4 -2.280 -0.079 -0.000
O5 -1.013 -0.727 0.000
O6 -0.063 1.311 0.000
C7 0.041 0.106 0.000
H8 1.244 -1.731 0.000
C9 1.311 -0.649 0.000
H10 3.420 -0.522 -0.000
H11 2.485 1.085 -0.000
C12 2.471 0.000 -0.000

Atom - Atom Distances (Å)
  H1 H2 H3 C4 O5 O6 C7 H8 C9 H10 H11 C12
H11.79181.79171.08772.01373.67813.21534.35054.33846.45135.84405.5617
H21.79181.77261.09112.07472.60012.62194.37903.98765.97184.98004.9689
H31.79171.77261.09112.07472.60582.62504.37933.98965.97434.98434.9719
C41.08771.09111.09111.42322.61652.32803.89213.63625.71764.90454.7518
O52.01372.07472.07471.42322.24881.34342.47022.32554.43813.93883.5592
O63.67812.60012.60582.61652.24881.20953.31132.39453.93692.55802.8537
C73.21532.62192.62502.32801.34341.20952.19631.47833.43772.63242.4329
H84.35054.37904.37933.89212.47023.31132.19631.08372.48923.07652.1217
C94.33843.98763.98963.63622.32552.39451.47831.08372.11302.09351.3293
H106.45135.97185.97435.71764.43813.93693.43772.48922.11301.85961.0835
H115.84404.98004.98434.90453.93882.55802.63243.07652.09351.85961.0846
C125.56174.96894.97194.75183.55922.85372.43292.12171.32931.08351.0846

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 110.652 H1 C4 H3 110.635
H1 C4 O5 105.864 H2 C4 H3 108.651
H2 C4 O5 110.517 H3 C4 O5 110.516
C4 O5 C7 114.555 O5 C7 O6 123.414
O5 C7 C9 110.914 O6 C7 C9 125.671
C7 C9 H8 117.190 C7 C9 C12 120.026
H8 C9 C12 122.784 C9 C12 H10 121.936
C9 C12 H11 119.940 H10 C12 H11 118.124
Electronic energy levels
Charges, Dipole, Quadrupole and Polarizability
Charges from optimized geometry at B1B95/6-31G* Charges (e)
Number Element Mulliken CHELPG AIM ESP
1 H 0.182      
2 H 0.187      
3 H 0.187      
4 C -0.262      
5 O -0.469      
6 O -0.489      
7 C 0.608      
8 H 0.182      
9 C -0.167      
10 H 0.177      
11 H 0.200      
12 C -0.335      


Electric dipole moments
Electric dipole components in Debye
(What's a Debye? See section VII.A.3)
  x y z Total
  -0.070 -1.471 -0.000 1.473
CHELPG        
AIM        
ESP        


Electric Quadrupole moment
Quadrupole components in D Å
Primitive
 xyz
x -25.582 -0.716 0.001
y -0.716 -37.815 0.000
z 0.001 0.000 -35.483
Traceless
 xyz
x 11.067 -0.716 0.001
y -0.716 -7.282 0.000
z 0.001 0.000 -3.784
Polar
3z2-r2-7.569
x2-y212.233
xy-0.716
xz0.001
yz0.000


Polarizabilities
Components of the polarizability tensor.
Units are Å3 (Angstrom cubed)
Change units.
  x y z
x 10.310 0.516 -0.001
y 0.516 6.647 0.000
z -0.001 0.000 3.770


<r2> (average value of r2) Å2
<r2> 174.946
(<r2>)1/2 13.227