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All results from a given calculation for HNO3 (Nitric acid)

using model chemistry: B3LYPultrafine/3-21G

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States and conformations

State Conformation minimum conformation conformer description state description
1 1 yes CS 1A'
Energy calculated at B3LYPultrafine/3-21G
 hartrees
Energy at 0K-279.288355
Energy at 298.15K 
HF Energy-279.288355
Nuclear repulsion energy120.748393
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 B3LYPultrafine/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' 3397 3278 32.05 63.81 0.34 0.50
2 A' 1535 1481 102.66 1.00 0.75 0.86
3 A' 1220 1178 155.01 7.59 0.60 0.75
4 A' 1144 1104 185.34 3.48 0.29 0.45
5 A' 844 815 75.91 11.54 0.12 0.22
6 A' 590 570 0.21 7.34 0.51 0.68
7 A' 492 475 11.39 2.69 0.73 0.84
8 A" 667 643 15.61 0.10 0.75 0.86
9 A" 482 465 143.20 7.15 0.75 0.86

Unscaled Zero Point Vibrational Energy (zpe) 5185.9 cm-1
Scaled (by 0.9649) Zero Point Vibrational Energy (zpe) 5003.9 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 B3LYPultrafine/3-21G
ABC
0.39719 0.36769 0.19094

See section I.F.4 to change rotational constant units
Geometric Data calculated at B3LYPultrafine/3-21G

Point Group is Cs

Cartesians (Å)
Atom x (Å) y (Å) z (Å)
N1 0.000 0.170 0.000
O2 -0.303 -1.289 0.000
O3 1.233 0.450 0.000
O4 -1.010 0.897 0.000
H5 0.634 -1.655 0.000

Atom - Atom Distances (Å)
  N1 O2 O3 O4 H5
N11.48971.26451.24441.9320
O21.48972.31972.29731.0056
O31.26452.31972.28712.1886
O41.24442.29732.28713.0357
H51.93201.00562.18863.0357

picture of Nitric acid state 1 conformation 1
More geometry information
Calculated Bond Angles
atom1 atom2 atom3 angle atom1 atom2 atom3 angle
N1 O2 H5 99.650 O2 N1 O3 114.509
O2 N1 O4 114.039 O3 N1 O4 131.452
Electronic energy levels
Charges, Dipole, Quadrupole and Polarizability
Charges from optimized geometry at B3LYPultrafine/3-21G Charges (e)
Number Element Mulliken CHELPG AIM ESP
1 N 0.506      
2 O -0.353      
3 O -0.281      
4 O -0.248      
5 H 0.376      


Electric dipole moments
Electric dipole components in Debye
(What's a Debye? See section VII.A.3)
  x y z Total
  1.258 -1.758 0.000 2.162
CHELPG        
AIM        
ESP        


Electric Quadrupole moment
Quadrupole components in D Å
Primitive
 xyz
x -23.880 -2.625 0.000
y -2.625 -20.133 0.000
z 0.000 0.000 -20.501
Traceless
 xyz
x -3.563 -2.625 0.000
y -2.625 2.058 0.000
z 0.000 0.000 1.505
Polar
3z2-r23.010
x2-y2-3.747
xy-2.625
xz0.000
yz0.000


Polarizabilities
Components of the polarizability tensor.
Units are Å3 (Angstrom cubed)
Change units.
  x y z
x 3.574 -0.436 0.000
y -0.436 3.325 0.000
z 0.000 0.000 0.663


<r2> (average value of r2) Å2
<r2> 59.173
(<r2>)1/2 7.692