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

using model chemistry: PBEPBEultrafine/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 PBEPBEultrafine/3-21G
 hartrees
Energy at 0K-264.439301
Energy at 298.15K-264.445343
Counterpoise corrected energy-264.413408
CP Energy at 298.15K-264.419007
Counterpoise optimized geometry corrected energy 
CP opt. Energy at 298.15K 
Nuclear repulsion energy127.144341
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 PBEPBEultrafine/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 3435 3404 8.89      
2 A 3024 2996 36.40      
3 A 2573 2549 1051.81      
4 A 1966 1948 545.93      
5 A 1711 1696 392.59      
6 A 1654 1639 63.16      
7 A 1392 1380 180.20      
8 A 1356 1344 73.08      
9 A 1279 1267 331.81      
10 A 1222 1211 58.45      
11 A 1090 1080 230.78      
12 A 1017 1008 1.83      
13 A 731 724 3.77      
14 A 568 563 62.60      
15 A 497 492 44.12      
16 A 457 453 138.16      
17 A 313 310 0.26      
18 A 285 282 22.45      

Unscaled Zero Point Vibrational Energy (zpe) 12284.3 cm-1
Scaled (by 0.9909) Zero Point Vibrational Energy (zpe) 12172.6 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 PBEPBEultrafine/3-21G
ABC
0.37378 0.20815 0.13535

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

Point Group is C1

Cartesians (Å)
Atom x (Å) y (Å) z (Å)
H1 0.648 0.880 -0.064
O2 -0.462 1.164 -0.005
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 0.073
H7 2.156 -0.067 0.791
H8 0.953 -0.811 -0.099

Atom - Atom Distances (Å)
  H1 O2 O3 C4 O5 H6 H7 H8
H11.14711.38081.97402.37342.96391.97581.7181
O21.14712.45911.33372.31802.04133.00072.4306
O31.38082.45912.80762.52883.90561.00411.0716
C41.97401.33372.80761.27511.10143.36472.2287
O52.37342.31802.52881.27512.07073.04731.5712
H62.96392.04133.90561.10142.07074.43183.3032
H71.97583.00071.00413.36473.04734.43181.6710
H81.71812.43061.07162.22871.57123.30321.6710

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 105.199 H1 O3 H7 110.894
H1 O3 H8 88.010 O2 H1 O3 153.099
O2 C4 O5 125.369 O2 C4 H6 113.580
O5 C4 H6 121.051 H7 O3 H8 107.182
Electronic energy levels
Charges, Dipole, Quadrupole and Polarizability
Charges from optimized geometry at PBEPBEultrafine/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
  0.755 -0.049 1.657 1.822
CHELPG        
AIM        
ESP        


Electric Quadrupole moment
Quadrupole components in D Å
Primitive
 xyz
x -19.410 -0.763 3.746
y -0.763 -27.826 -0.062
z 3.746 -0.062 -22.268
Traceless
 xyz
x 5.638 -0.763 3.746
y -0.763 -6.987 -0.062
z 3.746 -0.062 1.349
Polar
3z2-r22.699
x2-y28.417
xy-0.763
xz3.746
yz-0.062


Polarizabilities
Components of the polarizability tensor.
Units are Å3 (Angstrom cubed)
Change units.
  x y z
x 4.507 -0.109 0.349
y -0.109 3.380 -0.012
z 0.349 -0.012 1.558


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