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

using model chemistry: PBEPBEultrafine/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 PBEPBEultrafine/3-21G
 hartrees
Energy at 0K-264.405150
Energy at 298.15K-264.409773
Counterpoise corrected energy-264.390672
CP Energy at 298.15K-264.394418
Counterpoise optimized geometry corrected energy 
CP opt. Energy at 298.15K 
Nuclear repulsion energy117.949346
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/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 3421 3389 20.81      
2 A 3324 3294 2.50      
3 A 3270 3240 44.76      
4 A 2944 2917 31.12      
5 A 1719 1703 166.50      
6 A 1677 1662 46.15      
7 A 1367 1355 35.08      
8 A 1197 1186 45.39      
9 A 1139 1128 12.61      
10 A 978 969 205.95      
11 A 687 680 320.72      
12 A 657 651 157.69      
13 A 564 559 57.70      
14 A 382 379 98.41      
15 A 273 270 80.12      
16 A 214 212 6.12      
17 A 165 164 26.76      
18 A 148 146 12.57      

Unscaled Zero Point Vibrational Energy (zpe) 12061.7 cm-1
Scaled (by 0.9909) Zero Point Vibrational Energy (zpe) 11952.0 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 PBEPBEultrafine/3-21G
ABC
0.55126 0.11292 0.09473

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

Point Group is C1

Cartesians (Å)
Atom x (Å) y (Å) z (Å)
H1 1.668 0.508 -0.191
O2 2.179 -0.361 -0.094
O3 -0.194 1.038 0.011
H4 2.394 -0.388 0.890
H5 -0.977 1.677 0.030
C6 -0.689 -0.287 -0.015
O7 -1.882 -0.574 0.012
H8 0.226 -0.910 -0.065

Atom - Atom Distances (Å)
  H1 O2 O3 H4 H5 C6 O7 H8
H11.01271.94571.58072.90012.49343.71632.0264
O21.01272.75601.00773.75862.86954.06742.0289
O31.94572.75603.08271.01111.41522.33431.9943
H41.58071.00773.08274.04573.21434.36882.4259
H52.90013.75861.01114.04571.98572.42582.8545
C62.49342.86951.41523.21431.98571.22721.1076
O73.71634.06742.33434.36882.42581.22722.1355
H82.02642.02891.99432.42592.85451.10762.1355

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 102.954 H1 O3 H5 156.274
H1 O3 C6 94.460 O2 H1 O3 134.955
O3 C6 O7 123.958 O3 C6 H8 103.798
H5 O3 C6 108.707 O7 C6 H8 132.244
Electronic energy levels
Charges, Dipole, Quadrupole and Polarizability
Charges from optimized geometry at PBEPBEultrafine/3-21G Charges (e)
Number Element Mulliken CHELPG AIM ESP
1 H 0.337      
2 O -0.616      
3 O -0.512      
4 H 0.319      
5 H 0.357      
6 C 0.300      
7 O -0.421      
8 H 0.236      


Electric dipole moments
Electric dipole components in Debye
(What's a Debye? See section VII.A.3)
  x y z Total
  0.404 2.434 1.509 2.892
CHELPG        
AIM        
ESP        


Electric Quadrupole moment
Quadrupole components in D Å
Primitive
 xyz
x -28.563 -2.214 4.036
y -2.214 -21.017 -0.847
z 4.036 -0.847 -21.829
Traceless
 xyz
x -7.140 -2.214 4.036
y -2.214 4.179 -0.847
z 4.036 -0.847 2.961
Polar
3z2-r25.921
x2-y2-7.546
xy-2.214
xz4.036
yz-0.847


Polarizabilities
Components of the polarizability tensor.
Units are Å3 (Angstrom cubed)
Change units.
  x y z
x 4.168 -0.020 0.254
y -0.020 3.439 -0.060
z 0.254 -0.060 1.748


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