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

using model chemistry: B3LYP/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 B3LYP/3-21G
 hartrees
Energy at 0K-264.690060
Energy at 298.15K-264.694678
Counterpoise corrected energy-264.676930
CP Energy at 298.15K-264.680630
Counterpoise optimized geometry corrected energy 
CP opt. Energy at 298.15K 
Nuclear repulsion energy118.451532
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/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 3546 3421 24.41      
2 A 3462 3340 11.15      
3 A 3411 3292 38.92      
4 A 3096 2987 15.12      
5 A 1774 1712 193.87      
6 A 1709 1649 49.73      
7 A 1413 1363 32.52      
8 A 1255 1211 35.88      
9 A 1161 1120 8.13      
10 A 1028 992 245.32      
11 A 667 643 295.70      
12 A 658 635 197.31      
13 A 588 567 89.67      
14 A 357 345 108.67      
15 A 269 260 88.81      
16 A 212 205 3.30      
17 A 167 161 28.53      
18 A 147 142 12.46      

Unscaled Zero Point Vibrational Energy (zpe) 12459.5 cm-1
Scaled (by 0.9649) Zero Point Vibrational Energy (zpe) 12022.1 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/3-21G
ABC
0.56889 0.11182 0.09438

See section I.F.4 to change rotational constant units
Geometric Data calculated at B3LYP/3-21G

Point Group is C1

Cartesians (Å)
Atom x (Å) y (Å) z (Å)
H1 1.688 0.508 -0.181
O2 2.187 -0.353 -0.094
O3 -0.203 1.021 0.011
H4 2.492 -0.372 0.853
H5 -0.960 1.672 0.024
C6 -0.700 -0.287 -0.010
O7 -1.885 -0.562 0.011
H8 0.182 -0.930 -0.051

Atom - Atom Distances (Å)
  H1 O2 O3 H4 H5 C6 O7 H8
H10.99891.96831.57792.89952.52293.73462.0856
O20.99892.75860.99593.74402.88964.07902.0866
O31.96832.75863.14830.99861.39962.30971.9889
H41.57790.99593.14834.09633.30864.46192.5427
H52.89953.74400.99864.09631.97642.41752.8420
C62.52292.88961.39963.30861.97641.21631.0924
O73.73464.07902.30974.46192.41751.21632.1009
H82.08562.08661.98892.54272.84201.09242.1009

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 104.554 H1 O3 H5 154.087
H1 O3 C6 95.539 O2 H1 O3 134.131
O3 C6 O7 123.844 O3 C6 H8 105.231
H5 O3 C6 109.866 O7 C6 H8 130.925
Electronic energy levels
Charges, Dipole, Quadrupole and Polarizability
Charges from optimized geometry at B3LYP/3-21G Charges (e)
Number Element Mulliken CHELPG AIM ESP
1 H 0.347      
2 O -0.643      
3 O -0.556      
4 H 0.324      
5 H 0.364      
6 C 0.376      
7 O -0.451      
8 H 0.239      


Electric dipole moments
Electric dipole components in Debye
(What's a Debye? See section VII.A.3)
  x y z Total
  0.552 2.430 1.523 2.920
CHELPG        
AIM        
ESP        


Electric Quadrupole moment
Quadrupole components in D Å
Primitive
 xyz
x -28.375 -2.171 4.243
y -2.171 -20.842 -0.838
z 4.243 -0.838 -21.751
Traceless
 xyz
x -7.078 -2.171 4.243
y -2.171 4.221 -0.838
z 4.243 -0.838 2.857
Polar
3z2-r25.714
x2-y2-7.533
xy-2.171
xz4.243
yz-0.838


Polarizabilities
Components of the polarizability tensor.
Units are Å3 (Angstrom cubed)
Change units.
  x y z
x 3.871 -0.029 0.296
y -0.029 3.227 -0.062
z 0.296 -0.062 1.645


<r2> (average value of r2) Å2
<r2> 112.007
(<r2>)1/2 10.583