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All results from a given calculation for C4H6O2 (2-Propenoic acid, methyl ester)

using model chemistry: B3LYP/CEP-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 B3LYP/CEP-31G*
 hartrees
Energy at 0K-58.143844
Energy at 298.15K-58.150419
Nuclear repulsion energy121.947718
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 B3LYP/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 3252 3141 8.35      
2 A 3202 3092 6.26      
3 A 3171 3062 31.73      
4 A 3158 3050 8.87      
5 A 3147 3039 34.93      
6 A 3064 2959 43.28      
7 A 1782 1721 215.56      
8 A 1700 1642 30.14      
9 A 1489 1438 9.12      
10 A 1482 1432 7.32      
11 A 1469 1419 17.83      
12 A 1423 1374 75.17      
13 A 1320 1275 91.08      
14 A 1220 1178 335.77      
15 A 1194 1153 58.86      
16 A 1166 1126 0.13      
17 A 1065 1028 4.93      
18 A 1035 1000 51.21      
19 A 1019 984 19.89      
20 A 1001 967 31.53      
21 A 860 831 12.34      
22 A 826 797 28.95      
23 A 656 634 4.49      
24 A 532 514 0.06      
25 A 465 449 1.36      
26 A 336 324 15.15      
27 A 219 211 4.82      
28 A 201 194 4.87      
29 A 148 143 0.49      
30 A 104 101 4.54      

Unscaled Zero Point Vibrational Energy (zpe) 20852.3 cm-1
Scaled (by 0.9657) Zero Point Vibrational Energy (zpe) 20137.0 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 B3LYP/CEP-31G*
ABC
0.33437 0.07572 0.06248

See section I.F.4 to change rotational constant units
Geometric Data calculated at B3LYP/CEP-31G*

Point Group is C1

Cartesians (Å)
Atom x (Å) y (Å) z (Å)
H1 -3.033 -0.902 0.001
H2 -2.411 0.542 -0.897
H3 -2.410 0.542 0.898
C4 -2.296 -0.087 0.000
O5 -1.000 -0.736 -0.000
O6 -0.038 1.337 -0.000
C7 0.069 0.115 -0.000
H8 1.287 -1.754 -0.000
C9 1.357 -0.663 -0.000
H10 3.498 -0.555 0.000
H11 2.581 1.087 0.001
C12 2.549 -0.007 0.000

Atom - Atom Distances (Å)
  H1 H2 H3 C4 O5 O6 C7 H8 C9 H10 H11 C12
H11.81051.81061.09882.04003.73983.26424.40324.39626.54035.95545.6535
H21.81051.79481.10172.10422.65872.67134.44404.05606.07655.10075.0704
H31.81061.79481.10172.10422.65812.67094.44384.05566.07575.09985.0697
C41.09881.10171.10171.44982.67002.37373.95223.69835.81335.01614.8462
O52.04002.10422.10421.44982.28541.36572.50332.35774.50154.01743.6230
O63.73982.65872.65812.67002.28541.22753.36362.43884.01052.63052.9157
C73.26422.67132.67092.37371.36571.22752.23081.50463.49402.69332.4834
H84.40324.44404.44383.95222.50333.36362.23081.09332.51553.12132.1553
C94.39624.05604.05563.69832.35772.43881.50461.09332.14412.13521.3610
H106.54036.07656.07575.81334.50154.01053.49402.51552.14411.88021.0955
H115.95545.10075.09985.01614.01742.63052.69333.12132.13521.88021.0941
C125.65355.07045.06974.84623.62302.91572.48342.15531.36101.09551.0941

picture of 2-Propenoic acid, methyl ester state 1 conformation 1
More geometry information
Calculated Bond Angles
atom1 atom2 atom3 angle atom1 atom2 atom3 angle
H1 C4 H2 110.731 H1 C4 H3 110.733
H1 C4 O5 105.514 H2 C4 H3 109.092
H2 C4 O5 110.370 H3 C4 O5 110.370
C4 O5 C7 114.902 O5 C7 O6 123.523
O5 C7 C9 110.361 O6 C7 C9 126.115
C7 C9 H8 117.468 C7 C9 C12 120.059
H8 C9 C12 122.473 C9 C12 H10 121.199
C9 C12 H11 120.457 H10 C12 H11 118.344
Electronic energy levels
Charges, Dipole, Quadrupole and Polarizability
Charges from optimized geometry at B3LYP/CEP-31G* Charges (e)
Number Element Mulliken CHELPG AIM ESP
1 H 0.219      
2 H 0.192      
3 H 0.192      
4 C -0.375      
5 O -0.083      
6 O -0.111      
7 C -0.332      
8 H 0.316      
9 C 0.118      
10 H 0.214      
11 H 0.271      
12 C -0.622      


Electric dipole moments
Electric dipole components in Debye
(What's a Debye? See section VII.A.3)
  x y z Total
  -0.102 -1.550 0.001 1.553
CHELPG        
AIM        
ESP        


Electric Quadrupole moment
Quadrupole components in D Å
Primitive
 xyz
x -24.863 -0.878 0.000
y -0.878 -38.211 0.001
z 0.000 0.001 -36.137
Traceless
 xyz
x 12.311 -0.878 0.000
y -0.878 -7.711 0.001
z 0.000 0.001 -4.600
Polar
3z2-r2-9.200
x2-y213.348
xy-0.878
xz0.000
yz0.001


Polarizabilities
Components of the polarizability tensor.
Units are Å3 (Angstrom cubed)
Change units.
  x y z
x 10.957 0.614 0.001
y 0.614 6.690 -0.000
z 0.001 -0.000 4.311


<r2> (average value of r2) Å2
<r2> 145.902
(<r2>)1/2 12.079