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

using model chemistry: PBEPBEultrafine/6-31G*

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States and conformations

State Conformation minimum conformation conformer description state description
1 1 yes C1 1A
Energy calculated at PBEPBEultrafine/6-31G*
 hartrees
Energy at 0K-265.904855
Energy at 298.15K-265.910189
Counterpoise corrected energy-265.897535
CP Energy at 298.15K-265.902712
Counterpoise optimized geometry corrected energy 
CP opt. Energy at 298.15K 
Nuclear repulsion energy124.825616
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 PBEPBEultrafine/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 3682 3622 46.10      
2 A 3355 3300 388.75      
3 A 3005 2955 26.37      
4 A 2885 2837 770.74      
5 A 1743 1714 242.75      
6 A 1688 1660 115.21      
7 A 1487 1462 1.24      
8 A 1362 1339 10.98      
9 A 1221 1201 159.04      
10 A 1074 1057 93.48      
11 A 991 975 27.67      
12 A 811 798 326.89      
13 A 692 681 15.71      
14 A 431 424 87.10      
15 A 362 356 69.38      
16 A 289 284 51.35      
17 A 235 231 8.45      
18 A 221 217 12.75      

Unscaled Zero Point Vibrational Energy (zpe) 12766.4 cm-1
Scaled (by 0.9835) Zero Point Vibrational Energy (zpe) 12555.7 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 PBEPBEultrafine/6-31G*
ABC
0.38223 0.17746 0.12258

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

Point Group is C1

Cartesians (Å)
Atom x (Å) y (Å) z (Å)
H1 0.468 0.934 -0.044
O2 -0.534 1.147 -0.004
O3 1.850 -0.016 -0.095
C4 -1.168 -0.024 0.018
O5 -0.645 -1.140 -0.002
H6 -2.266 0.121 0.058
H7 2.232 -0.060 0.805
H8 1.204 -0.776 -0.116

Atom - Atom Distances (Å)
  H1 O2 O3 C4 O5 H6 H7 H8
H11.02531.67801.89702.35422.85482.19561.8633
O21.02532.65431.33142.28932.01423.12432.5945
O31.67802.65433.02012.73774.12160.97870.9973
C41.89701.33143.02011.23261.10883.49002.4922
O52.35422.28932.73771.23262.05513.17681.8880
H62.85482.01424.12161.10882.05514.56363.5890
H72.19563.12430.97873.49003.17684.56361.5545
H81.86332.59450.99732.49221.88803.58901.5545

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 106.484 H1 O3 H7 108.593
H1 O3 H8 84.198 O2 H1 O3 157.456
O2 C4 O5 126.421 O2 C4 H6 110.934
O5 C4 H6 122.646 H7 O3 H8 103.753
Electronic energy levels
Charges, Dipole, Quadrupole and Polarizability
Charges from optimized geometry at PBEPBEultrafine/6-31G* Charges (e)
Number Element Mulliken CHELPG AIM ESP
1 H 0.417      
2 O -0.503      
3 O -0.763      
4 C 0.310      
5 O -0.420      
6 H 0.154      
7 H 0.398      
8 H 0.408      


Electric dipole moments
Electric dipole components in Debye
(What's a Debye? See section VII.A.3)
  x y z Total
  0.367 0.200 1.492 1.549
CHELPG        
AIM        
ESP        


Electric Quadrupole moment
Quadrupole components in D Å
Primitive
 xyz
x -20.287 -1.120 3.712
y -1.120 -27.093 0.016
z 3.712 0.016 -22.279
Traceless
 xyz
x 4.399 -1.120 3.712
y -1.120 -5.811 0.016
z 3.712 0.016 1.411
Polar
3z2-r22.823
x2-y26.807
xy-1.120
xz3.712
yz0.016


Polarizabilities
Components of the polarizability tensor.
Units are Å3 (Angstrom cubed)
Change units.
  x y z
x 4.748 -0.184 0.196
y -0.184 3.899 0.000
z 0.196 0.000 2.148


<r2> (average value of r2) Å2
<r2> 0.000
(<r2>)1/2 0.000