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All results from a given calculation for H2OHCOOH (Water formic acid dimer 2)

using model chemistry: CCSD(T)/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 CCSD(T)/3-21G
 hartrees
Energy at 0K-263.786154
Energy at 298.15K-263.790738
HF Energy-263.295223
Counterpoise corrected energy 
CP Energy at 298.15K 
Counterpoise optimized geometry corrected energy 
CP opt. Energy at 298.15K 
Nuclear repulsion energy117.159427
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 CCSD(T)/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
18 A 3569 3535        
17 A 3444 3412        
16 A 3431 3398        
15 A 3167 3138        
14 A 1748 1732        
13 A 1662 1646        
12 A 1409 1396        
11 A 1351 1338        
10 A 1122 1112        
9 A 1067 1057        
8 A 675 669        
7 A 627 621        
6 A 601 596        
5 A 323 320        
4 A 273 270        
3 A 221 219        
2 A 158 157        
1 A 146 145        

Unscaled Zero Point Vibrational Energy (zpe) 12496.8 cm-1
Scaled (by 0.9906) Zero Point Vibrational Energy (zpe) 12379.3 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 CCSD(T)/3-21G
ABC
0.64530 0.10400 0.09033

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

Point Group is C1

Cartesians (Å)
Atom x (Å) y (Å) z (Å)
H1 -1.759 0.516 -0.145
O2 -2.269 -0.337 -0.093
O3 0.192 1.040 0.009
H4 -2.682 -0.343 0.811
C5 0.576 -0.141 -0.012
O6 1.902 -0.529 0.011
H7 -0.089 -1.003 -0.051
H8 2.478 0.287 0.039

Atom - Atom Distances (Å)
  H1 O2 O3 H4 C5 O6 H7 H8
H10.99512.02671.58172.42923.81042.25914.2476
O20.99512.82250.99372.85264.17652.27974.7899
O32.02672.82253.28901.24232.32072.06302.4070
H41.58170.99373.28903.36594.65682.81115.2555
C52.42922.85261.24233.36591.38191.08861.9509
O63.81044.17652.32074.65681.38192.04720.9995
H72.25912.27972.06302.81111.08862.04722.8743
H84.24764.78992.40705.25551.95090.99952.8743

picture of Water formic acid dimer 2 state 1 conformation 1
More geometry information
Calculated Bond Angles
atom1 atom2 atom3 angle atom1 atom2 atom3 angle
H1 O2 H4 105.370 H1 O3 C5 92.846
O2 H1 O3 135.334 O3 C5 O6 124.249
O3 C5 H7 124.384 C5 O6 H8 108.946
O6 C5 H7 111.367
Electronic energy levels
Charges, Dipole, Quadrupole and Polarizability
Charges from optimized geometry at CCSD(T)/3-21G Charges (e)
Number Element Mulliken CHELPG AIM ESP
1 H 0.396      
2 O -0.754      
3 O -0.610      
4 H 0.357      
5 C 0.590      
6 O -0.679      
7 H 0.288      
8 H 0.410      


Electric dipole moments
Electric dipole components in Debye
(What's a Debye? See section VII.A.3)
  x y z Total
  1.193 0.483 1.662 2.102
CHELPG        
AIM        
ESP        


Electric Quadrupole moment
Quadrupole components in D Å
Primitive
 xyz
x -20.955 1.342 -4.772
y 1.342 -26.551 -0.834
z -4.772 -0.834 -21.946
Traceless
 xyz
x 3.294 1.342 -4.772
y 1.342 -5.100 -0.834
z -4.772 -0.834 1.807
Polar
3z2-r23.613
x2-y25.596
xy1.342
xz-4.772
yz-0.834


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> 117.461
(<r2>)1/2 10.838