return to home page Computational Chemistry Comparison and Benchmark DataBase Release 22 (May 2022) Standard Reference Database 101 National Institute of Standards and Technology
You are here: Calculated > Energy > Optimized > Energy

All results from a given calculation for H2OHCOOH (Water formic acid dimer 1)

using model chemistry: HF/6-311+G(3df,2p)

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/6-311+G(3df,2p)
 hartrees
Energy at 0K-264.904673
Energy at 298.15K-264.908137
Counterpoise corrected energy 
CP Energy at 298.15K 
Counterpoise optimized geometry corrected energy 
CP opt. Energy at 298.15K 
Nuclear repulsion energy116.976307
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/6-311+G(3df,2p)
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 4248 3859 123.12      
2 A 4143 3764 21.50      
3 A 4111 3735 114.64      
4 A 3273 2973 15.32      
5 A 1993 1811 488.04      
6 A 1746 1587 128.10      
7 A 1539 1398 13.63      
8 A 1408 1280 11.37      
9 A 1248 1134 313.54      
10 A 1201 1091 0.10      
11 A 697 633 50.93      
12 A 686 624 179.77      
13 A 281 255 85.73      
14 A 236 214 126.01      
15 A 99 90 5.97      
16 A 82 74 148.35      
17 A 68 61 27.75      
18 A 53 48 0.06      

Unscaled Zero Point Vibrational Energy (zpe) 13554.8 cm-1
Scaled (by 0.9086) Zero Point Vibrational Energy (zpe) 12315.9 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 HF/6-311+G(3df,2p)
ABC
0.68654 0.08983 0.07945

See section I.F.4 to change rotational constant units
Geometric Data calculated at HF/6-311+G(3df,2p)

Point Group is C1

Cartesians (Å)
Atom x (Å) y (Å) z (Å)
H1 2.055 0.542 0.004
O2 2.449 -0.313 -0.016
O3 -0.339 0.932 0.001
H4 3.374 -0.191 0.094
H5 -1.041 1.566 -0.007
C6 -0.856 -0.288 0.004
O7 -2.009 -0.514 -0.000
H8 -0.071 -1.034 0.012

Atom - Atom Distances (Å)
  H1 O2 O3 H4 H5 C6 O7 H8
H10.94112.42581.51143.26103.02704.19902.6470
O20.94113.05320.93933.96313.30504.46232.6218
O32.42583.05323.88010.94551.32472.20911.9843
H41.51140.93933.88014.75254.23185.39313.5479
H53.26103.96310.94554.75251.86232.29392.7745
C63.02703.30501.32474.23181.86231.17491.0829
O74.19904.46232.20915.39312.29391.17492.0059
H82.64702.62181.98433.54792.77451.08292.0059

picture of Water formic acid dimer 1 state 1 conformation 1
More geometry information
Calculated Bond Angles
atom1 atom2 atom3 angle atom1 atom2 atom3 angle
H1 O2 H4 106.980 H1 O3 H5 147.192
H1 O3 C6 103.715 O2 H1 O3 123.983
O3 C6 O7 124.092 O3 C6 H8 110.612
H5 O3 C6 109.092 O7 C6 H8 125.297
Electronic energy levels
Charges, Dipole, Quadrupole and Polarizability
Charges from optimized geometry at HF/6-311+G(3df,2p) Charges (e)
Number Element Mulliken CHELPG AIM ESP
1 H 0.262      
2 O -0.477      
3 O -0.580      
4 H 0.224      
5 H 0.233      
6 C 0.935      
7 O -0.781      
8 H 0.183      


Electric dipole moments
Electric dipole components in Debye
(What's a Debye? See section VII.A.3)
  x y z Total
  2.422 2.454 0.226 3.455
CHELPG        
AIM        
ESP        


Electric Quadrupole moment
Quadrupole components in D Å
Primitive
 xyz
x -23.447 -1.550 0.824
y -1.550 -20.987 -0.062
z 0.824 -0.062 -24.381
Traceless
 xyz
x -0.763 -1.550 0.824
y -1.550 2.927 -0.062
z 0.824 -0.062 -2.165
Polar
3z2-r2-4.329
x2-y2-2.460
xy-1.550
xz0.824
yz-0.062


Polarizabilities
Components of the polarizability tensor.
Units are Å3 (Angstrom cubed)
Change units.
  x y z
x 4.815 0.150 0.018
y 0.150 4.011 -0.004
z 0.018 -0.004 3.028


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