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

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-264.439301
Energy at 298.15K-264.445346
Counterpoise corrected energy-264.413402
CP Energy at 298.15K-264.418983
Counterpoise optimized geometry corrected energy 
CP opt. Energy at 298.15K 
Nuclear repulsion energy127.144490
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 3437 3406 8.87      
2 A 3024 2997 36.54      
3 A 2571 2548 1052.43      
4 A 1962 1945 542.36      
5 A 1711 1696 395.43      
6 A 1655 1640 61.97      
7 A 1391 1379 180.34      
8 A 1356 1344 73.62      
9 A 1278 1267 338.57      
10 A 1222 1211 59.08      
11 A 1091 1081 227.10      
12 A 1017 1008 1.78      
13 A 731 725 3.71      
14 A 570 565 62.21      
15 A 498 493 46.55      
16 A 458 454 135.74      
17 A 312 309 0.20      
18 A 285 283 22.40      

Unscaled Zero Point Vibrational Energy (zpe) 12285.6 cm-1
Scaled (by 0.9909) Zero Point Vibrational Energy (zpe) 12173.8 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 PBEPBE/3-21G
ABC
0.37380 0.20815 0.13535

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 0.648 0.880 -0.063
O2 -0.462 1.164 -0.004
O3 1.686 -0.029 -0.096
C4 -1.119 0.003 0.023
O5 -0.578 -1.151 -0.004
H6 -2.213 0.117 0.072
H7 2.158 -0.067 0.790
H8 0.952 -0.811 -0.098

Atom - Atom Distances (Å)
  H1 O2 O3 C4 O5 H6 H7 H8
H11.14771.38001.97432.37352.96441.97521.7178
O21.14772.45901.33362.31802.04143.00142.4305
O31.38002.45902.80752.52883.90551.00411.0718
C41.97431.33362.80751.27511.10143.36552.2285
O52.37352.31802.52881.27512.07063.04791.5709
H62.96442.04143.90551.10142.07064.43293.3029
H71.97523.00141.00413.36553.04794.43291.6714
H81.71782.43051.07182.22851.57093.30291.6714

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 105.193 H1 O3 H7 110.904
H1 O3 H8 88.018 O2 H1 O3 153.103
O2 C4 O5 125.371 O2 C4 H6 113.590
O5 C4 H6 121.039 H7 O3 H8 107.198
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 0.352      
2 O -0.512      
3 O -0.627      
4 C 0.338      
5 O -0.469      
6 H 0.223      
7 H 0.349      
8 H 0.346      


Electric dipole moments
Electric dipole components in Debye
(What's a Debye? See section VII.A.3)
  x y z Total
  0.760 -0.050 1.658 1.824
CHELPG        
AIM        
ESP        


Electric Quadrupole moment
Quadrupole components in D Å
Primitive
 xyz
x -19.397 -0.764 3.749
y -0.764 -27.828 -0.061
z 3.749 -0.061 -22.272
Traceless
 xyz
x 5.652 -0.764 3.749
y -0.764 -6.993 -0.061
z 3.749 -0.061 1.341
Polar
3z2-r22.681
x2-y28.430
xy-0.764
xz3.749
yz-0.061


Polarizabilities
Components of the polarizability tensor.
Units are Å3 (Angstrom cubed)
Change units.
  x y z
x 4.510 -0.109 0.351
y -0.109 3.380 -0.012
z 0.351 -0.012 1.557


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