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All results from a given calculation for C4H6O2 (2-Propenoic acid, methyl ester)

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-304.419050
Energy at 298.15K-304.425353
Nuclear repulsion energy223.909382
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 3192 3163 3.40      
2 A 3156 3127 1.09      
3 A 3116 3087 12.50      
4 A 3092 3064 2.90      
5 A 3063 3035 20.32      
6 A 2994 2967 21.60      
7 A 1692 1677 72.50      
8 A 1644 1629 22.09      
9 A 1513 1499 11.09      
10 A 1490 1477 10.43      
11 A 1437 1424 35.08      
12 A 1424 1411 22.05      
13 A 1309 1297 21.13      
14 A 1145 1134 171.19      
15 A 1138 1127 155.40      
16 A 1118 1108 0.08      
17 A 1071 1061 3.61      
18 A 1014 1004 32.19      
19 A 974 965 30.77      
20 A 959 951 16.79      
21 A 808 800 6.62      
22 A 800 793 28.23      
23 A 641 635 4.11      
24 A 526 522 0.04      
25 A 470 466 0.68      
26 A 319 316 21.20      
27 A 215 213 4.39      
28 A 206 204 3.32      
29 A 113 112 5.27      
30 A 19 19 0.02      

Unscaled Zero Point Vibrational Energy (zpe) 20328.1 cm-1
Scaled (by 0.9909) Zero Point Vibrational Energy (zpe) 20143.1 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 PBEPBE/3-21G
ABC
0.32665 0.07611 0.06246

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 3.072 -0.887 -0.001
H2 2.438 0.560 0.895
H3 2.437 0.562 -0.894
C4 2.334 -0.075 0.000
O5 1.018 -0.765 -0.000
O6 0.062 1.352 -0.000
C7 -0.066 0.118 -0.000
H8 -1.235 -1.746 0.000
C9 -1.329 -0.659 0.000
H10 -3.462 -0.530 0.000
H11 -2.507 1.087 0.000
C12 -2.503 -0.008 0.000

Atom - Atom Distances (Å)
  H1 H2 H3 C4 O5 O6 C7 H8 C9 H10 H11 C12
H11.81651.81661.09762.05693.75163.29464.39204.40686.54395.91835.6435
H21.81651.78881.10232.13862.66012.69564.42914.05966.06705.05365.0536
H31.81661.78881.10232.13862.65832.69474.42904.05906.06625.05235.0527
C41.09761.10231.10231.48572.68302.40743.94143.70945.81424.97894.8373
O52.05692.13862.13861.48572.32321.39842.45822.35004.48703.98283.6017
O63.75162.66012.65832.68302.32321.24033.35862.44493.99512.58272.9028
C73.29462.69562.69472.40741.39841.24032.20091.48323.45802.62702.4404
H84.39204.42914.42903.94142.45823.35862.20091.09122.53733.10572.1510
C94.40684.05964.05903.70942.35002.44491.48321.09122.13722.10651.3421
H106.54396.06706.06625.81424.48703.99513.45802.53732.13721.87821.0923
H115.91835.05365.05234.97893.98282.58272.62703.10572.10651.87821.0954
C125.64355.05365.05274.83733.60172.90282.44042.15101.34211.09231.0954

picture of 2-Propenoic acid, methyl ester state 1 conformation 1
More geometry information
Calculated Bond Angles
atom1 atom2 atom3 angle atom1 atom2 atom3 angle
H1 C4 H2 111.329 H1 C4 H3 111.333
H1 C4 O5 104.543 H2 C4 H3 108.467
H2 C4 O5 110.578 H3 C4 O5 110.579
C4 O5 C7 113.139 O5 C7 O6 123.274
O5 C7 C9 109.237 O6 C7 C9 127.489
C7 C9 H8 116.672 C7 C9 C12 119.402
H8 C9 C12 123.926 C9 C12 H10 122.455
C9 C12 H11 119.244 H10 C12 H11 118.301
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 0.223      
2 H 0.229      
3 H 0.229      
4 C -0.406      
5 O -0.455      
6 O -0.466      
7 C 0.588      
8 H 0.225      
9 C -0.255      
10 H 0.213      
11 H 0.230      
12 C -0.355      


Electric dipole moments
Electric dipole components in Debye
(What's a Debye? See section VII.A.3)
  x y z Total
  0.234 -1.134 0.000 1.157
CHELPG        
AIM        
ESP        


Electric Quadrupole moment
Quadrupole components in D Å
Primitive
 xyz
x -25.551 0.915 -0.000
y 0.915 -38.037 0.000
z -0.000 0.000 -36.231
Traceless
 xyz
x 11.583 0.915 -0.000
y 0.915 -7.146 0.000
z -0.000 0.000 -4.437
Polar
3z2-r2-8.874
x2-y212.486
xy0.915
xz-0.000
yz0.000


Polarizabilities
Components of the polarizability tensor.
Units are Å3 (Angstrom cubed)
Change units.
  x y z
x 10.805 -0.502 0.000
y -0.502 6.388 0.000
z 0.000 0.000 3.153


<r2> (average value of r2) Å2
<r2> 180.683
(<r2>)1/2 13.442