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

using model chemistry: B3LYPultrafine/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 B3LYPultrafine/3-21G
 hartrees
Energy at 0K-264.718538
Energy at 298.15K-264.724390
Counterpoise corrected energy-264.695785
CP Energy at 298.15K-264.700966
Counterpoise optimized geometry corrected energy 
CP opt. Energy at 298.15K 
Nuclear repulsion energy126.790778
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 3558 3433 19.58      
2 A 3104 2995 5.07      
3 A 3053 2945 640.18      
4 A 2370 2287 868.21      
5 A 1768 1706 143.39      
6 A 1690 1630 167.29      
7 A 1530 1476 81.78      
8 A 1403 1354 28.52      
9 A 1276 1231 187.59      
10 A 1236 1192 128.58      
11 A 1065 1027 3.09      
12 A 975 940 454.90      
13 A 737 711 5.02      
14 A 529 511 74.80      
15 A 431 416 24.73      
16 A 392 378 159.56      
17 A 289 279 5.08      
18 A 267 257 31.47      

Unscaled Zero Point Vibrational Energy (zpe) 12835.2 cm-1
Scaled (by 0.9649) Zero Point Vibrational Energy (zpe) 12384.7 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
0.38173 0.19810 0.13183

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

Point Group is C1

Cartesians (Å)
Atom x (Å) y (Å) z (Å)
H1 0.585 0.912 -0.055
O2 -0.461 1.152 -0.003
O3 1.727 -0.036 -0.092
C4 -1.138 0.003 0.022
O5 -0.623 -1.137 -0.003
H6 -2.218 0.157 0.069
H7 2.254 -0.096 0.747
H8 1.062 -0.816 -0.107

Atom - Atom Distances (Å)
  H1 O2 O3 C4 O5 H6 H7 H8
H11.07431.48491.94912.37912.90512.10861.7928
O21.07432.49161.33412.29532.02043.08112.4904
O31.48492.49162.86732.59673.95290.99241.0249
C41.94911.33412.86731.25121.09213.47002.3503
O52.37912.29532.59671.25122.05533.15061.7182
H62.90512.02043.95291.09212.05534.53033.4253
H72.10863.08110.99243.47003.15064.53031.6340
H81.79282.49041.02492.35031.71823.42531.6340

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 107.566 H1 O3 H7 115.237
H1 O3 H8 89.226 O2 H1 O3 153.245
O2 C4 O5 125.171 O2 C4 H6 112.384
O5 C4 H6 122.445 H7 O3 H8 108.180
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 H 0.377      
2 O -0.567      
3 O -0.655      
4 C 0.418      
5 O -0.501      
6 H 0.212      
7 H 0.354      
8 H 0.363      


Electric dipole moments
Electric dipole components in Debye
(What's a Debye? See section VII.A.3)
  x y z Total
  0.818 -0.124 1.606 1.807
CHELPG        
AIM        
ESP        


Electric Quadrupole moment
Quadrupole components in D Å
Primitive
 xyz
x -18.624 -1.230 3.785
y -1.230 -27.776 -0.076
z 3.785 -0.076 -22.161
Traceless
 xyz
x 6.344 -1.230 3.785
y -1.230 -7.383 -0.076
z 3.785 -0.076 1.039
Polar
3z2-r22.077
x2-y29.151
xy-1.230
xz3.785
yz-0.076


Polarizabilities
Components of the polarizability tensor.
Units are Å3 (Angstrom cubed)
Change units.
  x y z
x 4.168 -0.121 0.343
y -0.121 3.276 -0.013
z 0.343 -0.013 1.453


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