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All results from a given calculation for H2OH2CO (water formaldehyde dimer)

using model chemistry: PBEPBE/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 PBEPBE/3-21G
 hartrees
Energy at 0K-189.637172
Energy at 298.15K-189.641226
Counterpoise corrected energy-189.623310
CP Energy at 298.15K-189.626264
Counterpoise optimized geometry corrected energy 
CP opt. Energy at 298.15K 
Nuclear repulsion energy70.292418
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 PBEPBE/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 3403 3372 20.26      
2 A 3173 3144 139.88      
3 A 2962 2935 28.81      
4 A 2852 2826 114.75      
5 A 1689 1674 40.49      
6 A 1620 1605 28.66      
7 A 1475 1461 32.72      
8 A 1225 1214 4.61      
9 A 1209 1198 10.14      
10 A 817 810 326.01      
11 A 446 442 44.92      
12 A 363 360 86.63      
13 A 302 299 116.13      
14 A 269 267 30.67      
15 A 252 250 18.93      

Unscaled Zero Point Vibrational Energy (zpe) 11029.1 cm-1
Scaled (by 0.9909) Zero Point Vibrational Energy (zpe) 10928.7 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 PBEPBE/3-21G
ABC
1.12277 0.20100 0.17366

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

Point Group is C1

Cartesians (Å)
Atom x (Å) y (Å) z (Å)
H1 0.910 -0.582 -0.134
O2 1.683 0.081 -0.104
O3 -0.940 -0.698 0.010
H4 1.970 0.051 0.861
C5 -1.089 0.543 0.004
H6 -0.195 1.198 -0.043
H7 -2.094 1.017 0.041

Atom - Atom Distances (Å)
  H1 O2 O3 H4 C5 H6 H7
H11.01871.85901.58582.29772.09813.4078
O21.01872.73811.00722.81152.18643.8939
O31.85902.73813.12271.25022.03842.0676
H41.58581.00723.12273.21402.61184.2569
C52.29772.81151.25023.21401.10891.1124
H62.09812.18642.03842.61181.10891.9095
H73.40783.89392.06764.25691.11241.9095

picture of water formaldehyde dimer state 1 conformation 1
More geometry information
Calculated Bond Angles
atom1 atom2 atom3 angle atom1 atom2 atom3 angle
H1 O2 H4 103.030 H1 O3 C5 93.213
O2 H1 O3 142.471 O3 C5 H6 119.432
O3 C5 H7 122.015 H6 C5 H7 118.553
Electronic energy levels
Charges, Dipole, Quadrupole and Polarizability
Charges from optimized geometry at PBEPBE/3-21G Charges (e)
Number Element Mulliken CHELPG AIM ESP
1 H 0.325      
2 O -0.642      
3 O -0.366      
4 H 0.309      
5 C -0.015      
6 H 0.205      
7 H 0.183      


Electric dipole moments
Electric dipole components in Debye
(What's a Debye? See section VII.A.3)
  x y z Total
  -1.264 0.975 1.599 2.260
CHELPG        
AIM        
ESP        


Electric Quadrupole moment
Quadrupole components in D Å
Primitive
 xyz
x -19.388 -3.349 3.507
y -3.349 -18.269 0.251
z 3.507 0.251 -16.865
Traceless
 xyz
x -1.821 -3.349 3.507
y -3.349 -0.143 0.251
z 3.507 0.251 1.964
Polar
3z2-r23.928
x2-y2-1.119
xy-3.349
xz3.507
yz0.251


Polarizabilities
Components of the polarizability tensor.
Units are Å3 (Angstrom cubed)
Change units.
  x y z
x 3.572 -0.347 0.259
y -0.347 2.900 -0.014
z 0.259 -0.014 1.601


<r2> (average value of r2) Å2
<r2> 66.693
(<r2>)1/2 8.167