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All results from a given calculation for HCOOHH2O (Formic acid water dimer)

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-266.107258
Energy at 298.15K-266.112442
HF Energy-266.107258
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 3896 3695 79.14      
2 A 3681 3492 225.62      
3 A 3331 3159 602.38      
4 A 3119 2958 99.44      
5 A 1848 1753 340.57      
6 A 1736 1646 107.71      
7 A 1511 1434 2.68      
8 A 1435 1361 17.67      
9 A 1280 1214 207.19      
10 A 1084 1028 22.54      
11 A 999 947 140.87      
12 A 747 709 231.61      
13 A 690 655 128.49      
14 A 402 381 98.91      
15 A 318 302 70.87      
16 A 278 264 47.67      
17 A 224 213 13.37      
18 A 195 185 17.97      

Unscaled Zero Point Vibrational Energy (zpe) 13386.9 cm-1
Scaled (by 0.9485) Zero Point Vibrational Energy (zpe) 12697.5 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
0.39228 0.17103 0.12034

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 0.354 0.988 0.039
O2 -0.627 1.122 0.014
O3 1.839 0.067 -0.075
C4 -1.169 -0.082 -0.005
O5 -0.565 -1.134 0.025
H6 -2.263 -0.016 -0.046
H7 2.422 -0.204 0.642
H8 1.319 -0.717 -0.321

Atom - Atom Distances (Å)
  H1 O2 O3 C4 O5 H6 H7 H8
H10.99061.75121.86142.31222.80432.46171.9915
O20.99062.68431.32082.25751.99433.38382.6986
O31.75122.68433.01272.68934.10340.96250.9729
C41.86141.32083.01271.21361.09703.65082.5868
O52.31222.25752.68931.21362.03443.18881.9600
H62.80431.99434.10341.09702.03444.73923.6601
H72.46173.38380.96253.65083.18884.73921.5522
H81.99152.69860.97292.58681.96003.66011.5522

picture of Formic acid water dimer state 1 conformation 1
More geometry information
Calculated Bond Angles
atom1 atom2 atom3 angle atom1 atom2 atom3 angle
H1 O2 C4 106.403 H1 O3 H7 127.813
H1 O3 H8 89.208 O2 H1 O3 155.505
O2 C4 O5 125.880 O2 C4 H6 110.802
O5 C4 H6 123.317 H7 O3 H8 106.645
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 0.459      
2 O -0.568      
3 O -0.825      
4 C 0.374      
5 O -0.471      
6 H 0.171      
7 H 0.420      
8 H 0.439      


Electric dipole moments
Electric dipole components in Debye
(What's a Debye? See section VII.A.3)
  x y z Total
  0.331 0.159 1.499 1.544
CHELPG        
AIM        
ESP        


Electric Quadrupole moment
Quadrupole components in D Å
Primitive
 xyz
x -19.348 -1.451 3.846
y -1.451 -27.143 0.035
z 3.846 0.035 -22.148
Traceless
 xyz
x 5.298 -1.451 3.846
y -1.451 -6.395 0.035
z 3.846 0.035 1.097
Polar
3z2-r22.195
x2-y27.796
xy-1.451
xz3.846
yz0.035


Polarizabilities
Components of the polarizability tensor.
Units are Å3 (Angstrom cubed)
Change units.
  x y z
x 4.195 -0.162 0.170
y -0.162 3.698 0.005
z 0.170 0.005 2.043


<r2> (average value of r2) Å2
<r2> 91.934
(<r2>)1/2 9.588