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All results from a given calculation for HCOOHH2O (Formic acid water dimer)

using model chemistry: HF/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/3-21G
 hartrees
Energy at 0K-263.319463
Energy at 298.15K-263.324800
Counterpoise corrected energy-263.306546
CP Energy at 298.15K-263.311182
Counterpoise optimized geometry corrected energy 
CP opt. Energy at 298.15K 
Nuclear repulsion energy126.117945
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
1 A 3955 3581 95.19      
2 A 3757 3403 162.66      
3 A 3347 3031 315.33      
4 A 3300 2988 533.94      
5 A 1888 1710 283.61      
6 A 1782 1614 267.48      
7 A 1640 1485 16.48      
8 A 1542 1396 36.00      
9 A 1303 1180 255.67      
10 A 1211 1096 12.80      
11 A 1116 1011 348.77      
12 A 765 692 88.87      
13 A 699 633 297.23      
14 A 470 426 104.72      
15 A 325 294 18.60      
16 A 274 248 76.37      
17 A 226 205 63.12      
18 A 203 184 103.13      

Unscaled Zero Point Vibrational Energy (zpe) 13901.1 cm-1
Scaled (by 0.9056) Zero Point Vibrational Energy (zpe) 12588.8 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
0.39831 0.18011 0.12473

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 0.498 0.966 -0.032
O2 -0.485 1.128 0.001
O3 1.801 -0.035 -0.072
C4 -1.176 -0.002 0.016
O5 -0.690 -1.115 0.002
H6 -2.236 0.180 0.044
H7 2.532 -0.119 0.550
H8 1.261 -0.845 -0.093

Atom - Atom Distances (Å)
  H1 O2 O3 C4 O5 H6 H7 H8
H10.99721.64331.93422.39612.84512.37811.9654
O20.99722.56631.32472.25261.99103.31142.6364
O31.64332.56632.97892.71654.04410.96380.9740
C41.93421.32472.97891.21461.07523.74882.5810
O52.39612.25262.71651.21462.01673.41711.9719
H62.84511.99104.04411.07522.01674.80413.6461
H72.37813.31140.96383.74883.41714.80411.5990
H81.96542.63640.97402.58101.97193.64611.5990

picture of Formic acid water dimer state 1 conformation 1
More geometry information
Calculated Bond Angles
atom1 atom2 atom3 angle atom1 atom2 atom3 angle
H1 O2 C4 112.049 H1 O3 H7 129.765
H1 O3 H8 93.829 O2 H1 O3 151.900
O2 C4 O5 124.956 O2 C4 H6 111.698
O5 C4 H6 123.346 H7 O3 H8 111.212
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 0.465      
2 O -0.750      
3 O -0.781      
4 C 0.644      
5 O -0.634      
6 H 0.234      
7 H 0.398      
8 H 0.424      


Electric dipole moments
Electric dipole components in Debye
(What's a Debye? See section VII.A.3)
  x y z Total
  1.107 -0.273 1.322 1.746
CHELPG        
AIM        
ESP        


Electric Quadrupole moment
Quadrupole components in D Å
Primitive
 xyz
x -15.220 -2.230 3.477
y -2.230 -28.320 -0.041
z 3.477 -0.041 -22.552
Traceless
 xyz
x 10.216 -2.230 3.477
y -2.230 -9.434 -0.041
z 3.477 -0.041 -0.782
Polar
3z2-r2-1.563
x2-y213.100
xy-2.230
xz3.477
yz-0.041


Polarizabilities
Components of the polarizability tensor.
Units are Å3 (Angstrom cubed)
Change units.
  x y z
x 3.374 -0.106 0.296
y -0.106 2.988 -0.004
z 0.296 -0.004 1.134


<r2> (average value of r2) Å2
<r2> 89.147
(<r2>)1/2 9.442