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

using model chemistry: MP2/3-21G

19 10 17 12 22

States and conformations

State Conformation minimum conformation conformer description state description
1 1 yes C1 1A
Energy calculated at MP2/3-21G
 hartrees
Energy at 0K-263.760079
Energy at 298.15K-263.764599
HF Energy-263.294146
Counterpoise corrected energy-263.748205
CP Energy at 298.15K-263.751774
Counterpoise optimized geometry corrected energy 
CP opt. Energy at 298.15K 
Nuclear repulsion energy117.231765
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 MP2/3-21G
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 3652 3486 31.16      
2 A 3507 3347 8.43      
3 A 3504 3345 35.56      
4 A 3201 3055 8.29      
5 A 1745 1666 57.98      
6 A 1706 1628 147.12      
7 A 1447 1381 26.64      
8 A 1284 1226 22.46      
9 A 1158 1105 9.29      
10 A 1024 977 278.37      
11 A 650 621 245.71      
12 A 637 608 210.39      
13 A 584 558 150.00      
14 A 333 317 117.61      
15 A 257 246 98.66      
16 A 205 196 1.77      
17 A 163 156 23.87      
18 A 135 129 18.39      

Unscaled Zero Point Vibrational Energy (zpe) 12595.5 cm-1
Scaled (by 0.9545) Zero Point Vibrational Energy (zpe) 12022.4 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 MP2/3-21G
ABC
0.56562 0.10791 0.09144

See section I.F.4 to change rotational constant units
Geometric Data calculated at MP2/3-21G

Point Group is C1

Cartesians (Å)
Atom x (Å) y (Å) z (Å)
H1 1.723 0.495 -0.178
O2 2.225 -0.355 -0.094
O3 -0.207 1.026 0.011
H4 2.590 -0.360 0.825
H5 -0.965 1.672 0.015
C6 -0.717 -0.289 -0.005
O7 -1.917 -0.561 0.009
H8 0.147 -0.947 -0.034

Atom - Atom Distances (Å)
  H1 O2 O3 H4 H5 C6 O7 H8
H10.99122.01041.57782.94072.56933.79522.1413
O20.99122.79850.98933.78122.94434.14832.1614
O32.01042.79853.22590.99621.41092.33362.0046
H41.57780.98933.22594.17433.41114.58522.6559
H52.94073.78120.99624.17431.97702.42822.8454
C62.56932.94431.41093.41111.97701.23031.0862
O73.79524.14832.33364.58522.42821.23032.0999
H82.14132.16142.00462.65592.84541.08622.0999

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 105.630 H1 O3 H5 154.441
H1 O3 C6 95.759 O2 H1 O3 134.779
O3 C6 O7 123.999 O3 C6 H8 106.059
H5 O3 C6 109.223 O7 C6 H8 129.942
Electronic energy levels
Charges, Dipole, Quadrupole and Polarizability
Charges from optimized geometry at MP2/3-21G Charges (e)
Number Element Mulliken CHELPG AIM ESP
1 H 0.400      
2 O -0.745      
3 O -0.709      
4 H 0.362      
5 H 0.413      
6 C 0.560      
7 O -0.572      
8 H 0.292      


Electric dipole moments
Electric dipole components in Debye
(What's a Debye? See section VII.A.3)
  x y z Total
  0.855 2.332 1.616 2.963
CHELPG        
AIM        
ESP        


Electric Quadrupole moment
Quadrupole components in D Å
Primitive
 xyz
x -29.776 -2.451 4.706
y -2.451 -21.153 -0.919
z 4.706 -0.919 -21.887
Traceless
 xyz
x -8.256 -2.451 4.706
y -2.451 4.679 -0.919
z 4.706 -0.919 3.577
Polar
3z2-r27.154
x2-y2-8.623
xy-2.451
xz4.706
yz-0.919


Polarizabilities
Components of the polarizability tensor.
Units are Å3 (Angstrom cubed)
Change units.
  x y z
x 3.262 -0.116 0.228
y -0.116 1.700 -0.626
z 0.228 -0.626 3.344


<r2> (average value of r2) Å2
<r2> 115.530
(<r2>)1/2 10.748