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All results from a given calculation for HOCH2COOH (Hydroxyacetic acid)

using model chemistry: HF/CEP-31G*

19 10 17 12 22

States and conformations

State Conformation minimum conformation conformer description state description
1 1 yes CS 1A
Energy calculated at HF/CEP-31G*
 hartrees
Energy at 0K-60.403682
Energy at 298.15K 
HF Energy-60.403682
Nuclear repulsion energy100.888906
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/CEP-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' 4114 3694 97.10      
2 A' 4096 3678 123.32      
3 A' 3261 2929 47.65      
4 A' 2005 1801 460.03      
5 A' 1639 1471 4.23      
6 A' 1623 1458 1.93      
7 A' 1463 1314 143.97      
8 A' 1395 1253 89.68      
9 A' 1318 1184 181.61      
10 A' 1239 1113 228.66      
11 A' 935 839 36.49      
12 A' 699 628 31.17      
13 A' 503 452 26.86      
14 A' 295 265 7.94      
15 A" 3302 2966 39.44      
16 A" 1359 1220 0.00      
17 A" 1138 1022 1.62      
18 A" 695 624 186.39      
19 A" 547 491 15.67      
20 A" 252 226 96.91      
21 A" 49i 44i 44.62      

Unscaled Zero Point Vibrational Energy (zpe) 15914.3 cm-1
Scaled (by 0.898) Zero Point Vibrational Energy (zpe) 14291.0 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/CEP-31G*
ABC
0.35980 0.13446 0.09969

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

Point Group is Cs

Cartesians (Å)
Atom x (Å) y (Å) z (Å)
C1 -0.587 -0.878 0.000
C2 0.000 0.530 0.000
O3 -0.941 1.474 0.000
O4 1.177 0.768 0.000
O5 0.415 -1.851 0.000
H6 -1.220 -0.977 0.882
H7 -1.220 -0.977 -0.882
H8 1.266 -1.420 0.000
H9 -0.512 2.328 0.000

Atom - Atom Distances (Å)
  C1 C2 O3 O4 O5 H6 H7 H8 H9
C11.52582.37882.41251.39671.09021.09021.93023.2070
C21.52581.33291.20052.41752.13022.13022.32551.8691
O32.37881.33292.23273.59132.61952.61953.64000.9560
O42.41251.20052.23272.72783.09313.09312.19052.2987
O51.39672.41753.59132.72782.05342.05340.95334.2808
H61.09022.13022.61953.09312.05341.76392.67463.4931
H71.09022.13022.61953.09312.05341.76392.67463.4931
H81.93022.32553.64002.19050.95332.67462.67464.1486
H93.20701.86910.95602.29874.28083.49313.49314.1486

picture of Hydroxyacetic acid state 1 conformation 1
More geometry information
Calculated Bond Angles
atom1 atom2 atom3 angle atom1 atom2 atom3 angle
C1 C2 O3 112.455 C1 C2 O4 124.037
C1 O5 H8 108.982 C2 C1 O5 111.547
C2 C1 H6 107.873 C2 C1 H7 107.873
C2 O3 H9 108.359 O3 C2 O4 123.508
O5 C1 H6 110.713 O5 C1 H7 110.713
H6 C1 H7 107.984
Electronic energy levels
Charges, Dipole, Quadrupole and Polarizability
Charges from optimized geometry at HF/CEP-31G* Charges (e)
Number Element Mulliken CHELPG AIM ESP
1 C 0.019      
2 C 0.057      
3 O -0.436      
4 O -0.263      
5 O -0.576      
6 H 0.136      
7 H 0.136      
8 H 0.451      
9 H 0.475      


Electric dipole moments
Electric dipole components in Debye
(What's a Debye? See section VII.A.3)
  x y z Total
  -1.444 2.004 0.000 2.470
CHELPG        
AIM        
ESP        


Electric Quadrupole moment
Quadrupole components in D Å
Primitive
 xyz
x -30.989 -0.798 0.000
y -0.798 -29.469 0.000
z 0.000 0.000 -28.147
Traceless
 xyz
x -2.182 -0.798 0.000
y -0.798 0.099 0.000
z 0.000 0.000 2.082
Polar
3z2-r24.164
x2-y2-1.521
xy-0.798
xz0.000
yz0.000


Polarizabilities
Components of the polarizability tensor.
Units are Å3 (Angstrom cubed)
Change units.
  x y z
x 4.773 0.015 0.000
y 0.015 4.468 0.000
z 0.000 0.000 2.954


<r2> (average value of r2) Å2
<r2> 91.575
(<r2>)1/2 9.569