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

using model chemistry: PBEPBEultrafine/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 PBEPBEultrafine/3-21G
 hartrees
Energy at 0K-189.637171
Energy at 298.15K-189.641223
Counterpoise corrected energy-189.623310
CP Energy at 298.15K-189.626212
Counterpoise optimized geometry corrected energy 
CP opt. Energy at 298.15K 
Nuclear repulsion energy70.291739
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 PBEPBEultrafine/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 20.34      
2 A 3173 3145 139.56      
3 A 2962 2935 29.40      
4 A 2852 2826 114.20      
5 A 1689 1674 40.55      
6 A 1620 1606 28.75      
7 A 1475 1461 32.76      
8 A 1225 1214 4.64      
9 A 1210 1199 10.15      
10 A 819 811 325.91      
11 A 446 442 43.18      
12 A 362 359 87.42      
13 A 300 297 121.04      
14 A 270 267 28.11      
15 A 252 250 17.27      

Unscaled Zero Point Vibrational Energy (zpe) 11028.5 cm-1
Scaled (by 0.9909) Zero Point Vibrational Energy (zpe) 10928.1 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 PBEPBEultrafine/3-21G
ABC
1.12272 0.20098 0.17365

See section I.F.4 to change rotational constant units
Geometric Data calculated at PBEPBEultrafine/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 1.968 0.052 0.862
C5 -1.089 0.543 0.004
H6 -0.195 1.198 -0.044
H7 -2.094 1.017 0.041

Atom - Atom Distances (Å)
  H1 O2 O3 H4 C5 H6 H7
H11.01871.85921.58572.29772.09803.4079
O21.01872.73831.00722.81162.18643.8940
O31.85922.73833.12191.25022.03842.0676
H41.58571.00723.12193.21292.61104.2557
C52.29772.81161.25023.21291.10891.1124
H62.09802.18642.03842.61101.10891.9095
H73.40793.89402.06764.25571.11241.9095

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 103.022 H1 O3 C5 93.205
O2 H1 O3 142.470 O3 C5 H6 119.435
O3 C5 H7 122.012 H6 C5 H7 118.552
Electronic energy levels
Charges, Dipole, Quadrupole and Polarizability
Charges from optimized geometry at PBEPBEultrafine/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
  -1.266 0.976 1.599 2.261
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 3.571 -0.347 0.258
y -0.347 2.900 -0.014
z 0.258 -0.014 1.602


<r2> (average value of r2) Å2
<r2> 0.000
(<r2>)1/2 0.000