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

using model chemistry: B3LYPultrafine_cp/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 B3LYPultrafine_cp/6-31G*
 hartrees
Energy at 0K-266.181956
Energy at 298.15K-266.175530
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 B3LYPultrafine/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 3794 3634 62.53      
2 A 3566 3416 260.31      
3 A 3191 3057 561.97      
4 A 3086 2956 145.90      
5 A 1802 1727 302.16      
6 A 1722 1649 112.28      
7 A 1504 1441 1.75      
8 A 1413 1354 14.24      
9 A 1249 1197 193.65      
10 A 1079 1034 28.72      
11 A 996 954 121.17      
12 A 759 727 284.80      
13 A 694 665 55.14      
14 A 403 386 92.50      
15 A 333 319 74.67      
16 A 267 256 44.07      
17 A 217 208 17.70      
18 A 210 201 12.35      

Unscaled Zero Point Vibrational Energy (zpe) 13142.9 cm-1
Scaled (by 0.958) Zero Point Vibrational Energy (zpe) 12590.9 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 B3LYPultrafine/6-31G*
ABC
0.38876 0.17180 0.12039

See section I.F.4 to change rotational constant units
Geometric Data calculated at B3LYPultrafine/6-31G*

Point Group is C1

Cartesians (Å)
Atom x (Å) y (Å) z (Å)
H1 0.435 0.950 -0.040
O2 -0.551 1.136 -0.002
O3 1.878 -0.011 -0.093
C4 -1.182 -0.029 0.017
O5 -0.659 -1.131 -0.001
H6 -2.271 0.115 0.054
H7 2.311 -0.068 0.773
H8 1.267 -0.780 -0.117

Atom - Atom Distances (Å)
  H1 O2 O3 C4 O5 H6 H7 H8
H11.00341.73521.89062.35042.83332.28451.9209
O21.00342.68801.32552.26952.00193.20052.6437
O31.73522.68803.06262.77504.15440.97000.9822
C41.89061.32553.06261.21961.09933.57472.5654
O52.35042.26952.77501.21962.03803.24841.9615
H62.83332.00194.15441.09932.03804.64253.6540
H72.28453.20050.97003.57473.24844.64251.5459
H81.92092.64370.98222.56541.96153.65401.5459

picture of Formic acid water dimer state 1 conformation 1
More geometry information
Electronic energy levels
Charges, Dipole, Quadrupole and Polarizability
Charges from optimized geometry at B3LYPultrafine/6-31G* Charges (e)
Number Element Mulliken CHELPG AIM ESP
1 H 0.439      
2 O -0.546      
3 O -0.791      
4 C 0.374      
5 O -0.452      
6 H 0.149      
7 H 0.404      
8 H 0.423      


Electric dipole moments
Electric dipole components in Debye
(What's a Debye? See section VII.A.3)
  x y z Total
  0.362 0.168 1.477 1.530
CHELPG        
AIM        
ESP        


Electric Quadrupole moment
Quadrupole components in D Å


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


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