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All results from a given calculation for C4H8O2 (Butanoic acid)

using model chemistry: PBEPBEultrafine/aug-cc-pVDZ

19 10 17 12 22

States and conformations

State Conformation minimum conformation conformer description state description
1 1 yes C1 1A
Energy calculated at PBEPBEultrafine/aug-cc-pVDZ
 hartrees
Energy at 0K-307.386782
Energy at 298.15K-307.395993
HF Energy-307.386782
Nuclear repulsion energy236.875182
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/aug-cc-pVDZ
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 3609 3587 40.81      
2 A 3063 3044 27.03      
3 A 3054 3035 27.81      
4 A 3046 3027 22.71      
5 A 3017 2999 0.58      
6 A 2999 2980 20.43      
7 A 2979 2961 11.76      
8 A 2967 2949 25.03      
9 A 1746 1736 299.72      
10 A 1433 1425 8.22      
11 A 1422 1414 8.61      
12 A 1419 1410 1.24      
13 A 1408 1400 7.54      
14 A 1341 1333 3.10      
15 A 1324 1316 59.57      
16 A 1305 1297 7.21      
17 A 1266 1258 1.69      
18 A 1227 1219 1.26      
19 A 1206 1199 27.87      
20 A 1149 1142 135.79      
21 A 1072 1065 9.44      
22 A 1038 1032 5.16      
23 A 1030 1023 87.79      
24 A 897 892 4.80      
25 A 859 854 0.78      
26 A 845 840 9.87      
27 A 725 721 6.97      
28 A 723 719 29.77      
29 A 618 615 64.63      
30 A 562 559 41.09      
31 A 412 410 3.32      
32 A 321 319 0.95      
33 A 236 234 0.01      
34 A 179 178 0.17      
35 A 89 88 0.41      
36 A 26 25 1.16      

Unscaled Zero Point Vibrational Energy (zpe) 25305.8 cm-1
Scaled (by 0.9939) Zero Point Vibrational Energy (zpe) 25151.4 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/aug-cc-pVDZ
ABC
0.26535 0.06107 0.05493

See section I.F.4 to change rotational constant units
Geometric Data calculated at PBEPBEultrafine/aug-cc-pVDZ

Point Group is C1

Cartesians (Å)
Atom x (Å) y (Å) z (Å)
C1 1.169 -0.121 0.121
C2 -0.243 -0.020 0.648
C3 -1.269 -0.013 -0.507
C4 -2.711 0.037 0.006
O5 1.729 1.115 -0.085
O6 1.762 -1.157 -0.142
H7 -0.418 -0.897 1.296
H8 -0.351 0.901 1.252
H9 -1.117 -0.920 -1.123
H10 -1.070 0.857 -1.162
H11 -3.429 0.038 -0.835
H12 -2.940 -0.838 0.644
H13 -2.893 0.949 0.606
H14 2.616 0.940 -0.466

Atom - Atom Distances (Å)
  C1 C2 C3 C4 O5 O6 H7 H8 H9 H10 H11 H12 H13 H14
C11.51052.51933.88461.37261.22242.12202.15202.72172.75964.69904.20284.22801.8885
C21.51051.54462.55082.39072.43711.10511.10572.17032.17503.51502.81772.82163.2156
C32.51931.54461.53113.23083.26022.18102.18391.10711.10742.18592.18962.19104.0007
C43.88462.55081.53114.56994.63222.79232.80512.17532.17441.10561.10691.10695.4239
O51.37262.39073.23084.56992.27263.25112.48193.64913.01055.32285.11284.67630.9812
O61.22242.43713.26024.63222.27262.62513.26203.05043.62195.37224.77765.16382.2871
H72.12201.10512.18102.79233.25112.62511.79992.51823.09013.80602.60513.16413.9612
H82.15201.10572.18392.80512.48193.26201.79993.08872.51943.81783.17692.62323.4288
H92.72172.17031.10712.17533.64913.05042.51823.08871.77802.52002.53983.10454.2222
H102.75962.17501.10742.17443.01053.62193.09012.51941.77802.51863.10292.54113.7527
H114.69903.51502.18591.10565.32285.37223.80603.81782.52002.51861.78711.78716.1238
H124.20282.81772.18961.10695.11284.77762.60513.17692.53983.10291.78711.78805.9380
H134.22802.82162.19101.10694.67635.16383.16412.62323.10452.54111.78711.78805.6125
H141.88853.21564.00075.42390.98122.28713.96123.42884.22223.75276.12385.93805.6125

picture of Butanoic acid state 1 conformation 1
More geometry information
Calculated Bond Angles
atom1 atom2 atom3 angle atom1 atom2 atom3 angle
C1 C2 C3 111.095 C1 C2 H7 107.428
C1 C2 H8 109.718 C1 O5 H14 105.492
C2 C1 O5 111.944 C2 C1 O6 125.862
C2 C3 C4 112.056 C2 C3 H9 108.739
C2 C3 H10 109.087 C3 C2 H7 109.680
C3 C2 H8 109.867 C3 C4 H11 110.965
C3 C4 H12 111.182 C3 C4 H13 111.294
C4 C3 H9 110.039 C4 C3 H10 109.955
O5 C1 O6 122.159 H7 C2 H8 108.999
H9 C3 H10 106.814 H11 C4 H12 107.750
H11 C4 H13 107.747 H12 C4 H13 107.737
Electronic energy levels
Charges, Dipole, Quadrupole and Polarizability
Charges from optimized geometry at PBEPBEultrafine/aug-cc-pVDZ Charges (e)
Number Element Mulliken CHELPG AIM ESP
1 C 0.942      
2 C 0.612      
3 C 0.672      
4 C 0.572      
5 O -0.458      
6 O -0.595      
7 H -0.300      
8 H -0.339      
9 H -0.343      
10 H -0.350      
11 H -0.216      
12 H -0.175      
13 H -0.178      
14 H 0.156      


Electric dipole moments
Electric dipole components in Debye
(What's a Debye? See section VII.A.3)
  x y z Total
  -1.166 1.415 0.094 1.836
CHELPG        
AIM        
ESP        


Electric Quadrupole moment
Quadrupole components in D Å
Primitive
 xyz
x -35.595 4.379 -0.689
y 4.379 -41.384 -1.021
z -0.689 -1.021 -36.557
Traceless
 xyz
x 3.376 4.379 -0.689
y 4.379 -5.309 -1.021
z -0.689 -1.021 1.933
Polar
3z2-r23.866
x2-y25.789
xy4.379
xz-0.689
yz-1.021


Polarizabilities
Components of the polarizability tensor.
Units are Å3 (Angstrom cubed)
Change units.
  x y z
x 11.206 -0.002 -0.379
y -0.002 8.918 0.007
z -0.379 0.007 7.833


<r2> (average value of r2) Å2
<r2> 211.370
(<r2>)1/2 14.539