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

using model chemistry: HF_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 HF_cp/3-21G
 hartrees
Energy at 0K-263.289496
Energy at 298.15K-263.282238
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 HF/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 3939 3567 58.98      
17 A 3856 3492 74.30      
16 A 3806 3446 52.91      
15 A 3395 3075 5.04      
14 A 1892 1713 300.45      
13 A 1816 1645 134.52      
12 A 1532 1388 6.88      
11 A 1433 1298 25.92      
10 A 1243 1125 0.36      
9 A 1197 1084 280.62      
8 A 699 633 298.16      
7 A 680 616 33.00      
6 A 593 537 526.38      
5 A 348 316 137.36      
4 A 222 201 128.97      
3 A 208 189 3.04      
2 A 148 134 36.82      
1 A 127 115 19.41      

Unscaled Zero Point Vibrational Energy (zpe) 13567.1 cm-1
Scaled (by 0.9056) Zero Point Vibrational Energy (zpe) 12286.4 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 HF/3-21G
ABC
0.72185 0.10393 0.09144

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

Point Group is C1

Cartesians (Å)
Atom x (Å) y (Å) z (Å)
H1 -1.768 0.511 -0.140
O2 -2.264 -0.320 -0.083
O3 0.193 0.986 0.007
H4 -2.834 -0.284 0.695
C5 0.594 -0.152 -0.005
O6 1.894 -0.489 0.011
H7 -0.039 -1.014 -0.030
H8 2.485 0.280 0.027

Atom - Atom Distances (Å)
  H1 O2 O3 H4 C5 O6 H7 H8
H10.96892.02371.57032.45693.79982.30864.2628
O20.96892.78400.96572.86344.16252.33144.7875
O32.02372.78403.35451.20632.25192.01422.3982
H41.57030.96573.35453.50134.78232.97905.3905
C52.45692.86341.20633.50131.34391.06991.9400
O63.79984.16252.25194.78231.34392.00340.9696
H72.30862.33142.01422.97901.06992.00342.8365
H84.26284.78752.39825.39051.94000.96962.8365

picture of Water formic acid dimer 2 state 1 conformation 1
More geometry information
Electronic energy levels
Charges, Dipole, Quadrupole and Polarizability
Charges from optimized geometry at HF/3-21G Charges (e)
Number Element Mulliken CHELPG AIM ESP
1 H 0.402      
2 O -0.772      
3 O -0.615      
4 H 0.366      
5 C 0.625      
6 O -0.701      
7 H 0.280      
8 H 0.415      


Electric dipole moments
Electric dipole components in Debye
(What's a Debye? See section VII.A.3)
  x y z Total
  1.011 0.632 1.486 1.906
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> 116.026
(<r2>)1/2 10.772