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

using model chemistry: MP2/3-21G

19 10 17 12 22

States and conformations

State Conformation minimum conformation conformer description state description
1 1 yes C1 1A
Energy calculated at MP2/3-21G
 hartrees
Energy at 0K-263.782183
Energy at 298.15K-263.787772
HF Energy-263.313037
Counterpoise corrected energy-263.761669
CP Energy at 298.15K-263.765956
Counterpoise optimized geometry corrected energy 
CP opt. Energy at 298.15K 
Nuclear repulsion energy124.505779
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 MP2/3-21G
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 3642 3476 46.44      
2 A 3382 3228 230.20      
3 A 3152 3008 39.05      
4 A 2801 2674 822.39      
5 A 1761 1681 26.45      
6 A 1700 1623 264.77      
7 A 1556 1485 42.20      
8 A 1453 1387 18.16      
9 A 1214 1159 192.57      
10 A 1198 1144 174.07      
11 A 1066 1018 24.46      
12 A 832 794 431.14      
13 A 715 682 8.23      
14 A 474 452 89.48      
15 A 379 362 50.05      
16 A 341 325 118.30      
17 A 257 245 10.46      
18 A 246 235 35.18      

Unscaled Zero Point Vibrational Energy (zpe) 13084.1 cm-1
Scaled (by 0.9545) Zero Point Vibrational Energy (zpe) 12488.8 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 MP2/3-21G
ABC
0.37380 0.18373 0.12440

See section I.F.4 to change rotational constant units
Geometric Data calculated at MP2/3-21G

Point Group is C1

Cartesians (Å)
Atom x (Å) y (Å) z (Å)
H1 0.535 0.937 -0.055
O2 -0.476 1.164 -0.004
O3 1.796 -0.040 -0.089
C4 -1.170 0.002 0.022
O5 -0.668 -1.149 -0.003
H6 -2.244 0.184 0.068
H7 2.339 -0.101 0.734
H8 1.180 -0.830 -0.114

Atom - Atom Distances (Å)
  H1 O2 O3 C4 O5 H6 H7 H8
H11.03791.59531.94712.40942.88262.22521.8821
O21.03792.57281.35452.32152.02313.17312.5946
O31.59532.57282.96892.70394.04950.98741.0024
C41.94711.35452.96891.25591.09013.58252.4969
O52.40942.32152.70391.25592.06543.26901.8789
H62.88262.02314.04951.09012.06544.64023.5758
H72.22523.17310.98743.58253.26904.64021.6109
H81.88212.59461.00242.49691.87893.57581.6109

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 108.225 H1 O3 H7 117.028
H1 O3 H8 89.867 O2 H1 O3 154.844
O2 C4 O5 125.537 O2 C4 H6 111.243
O5 C4 H6 123.220 H7 O3 H8 108.101
Electronic energy levels
Charges, Dipole, Quadrupole and Polarizability
Charges from optimized geometry at MP2/3-21G Charges (e)
Number Element Mulliken CHELPG AIM ESP
1 H 0.460      
2 O -0.732      
3 O -0.768      
4 C 0.614      
5 O -0.634      
6 H 0.245      
7 H 0.390      
8 H 0.425      


Electric dipole moments
Electric dipole components in Debye
(What's a Debye? See section VII.A.3)
  x y z Total
  0.458 -0.159 1.687 1.755
CHELPG        
AIM        
ESP        


Electric Quadrupole moment
Quadrupole components in D Å
Primitive
 xyz
x -17.567 -1.852 4.072
y -1.852 -29.062 -0.060
z 4.072 -0.060 -22.212
Traceless
 xyz
x 8.070 -1.852 4.072
y -1.852 -9.172 -0.060
z 4.072 -0.060 1.102
Polar
3z2-r22.205
x2-y211.495
xy-1.852
xz4.072
yz-0.060


Polarizabilities
Components of the polarizability tensor.
Units are Å3 (Angstrom cubed)
Change units.
  x y z
x 3.802 -0.425 0.001
y -0.425 1.429 0.174
z 0.001 0.174 3.421


<r2> (average value of r2) Å2
<r2> 89.591
(<r2>)1/2 9.465