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

using model chemistry: MP2_cp/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_cp/3-21G
 hartrees
Energy at 0K-263.744188
Energy at 298.15K-263.737055
Nuclear repulsion energy 
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
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


Polarizabilities
Components of the polarizability tensor.
Units are Å3 (Angstrom cubed)
Change units.
  x y z
x 0.000 0.000 0.000
y 0.000 0.000 0.000
z 0.000 0.000 0.000


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