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

using model chemistry: wB97X-D/6-311G**

19 10 17 12 22

States and conformations

State Conformation minimum conformation conformer description state description
1 1 yes C1 1A
Energy calculated at wB97X-D/6-311G**
 hartrees
Energy at 0K-266.202271
Energy at 298.15K-266.207276
HF Energy-266.202271
Nuclear repulsion energy124.934437
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 wB97X-D/6-311G**
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 3957 3785 75.74      
2 A 3750 3587 205.68      
3 A 3416 3268 617.94      
4 A 3078 2944 85.24      
5 A 1828 1748 363.67      
6 A 1652 1580 92.45      
7 A 1485 1420 1.33      
8 A 1414 1353 17.28      
9 A 1258 1204 221.75      
10 A 1081 1034 13.65      
11 A 978 936 140.99      
12 A 719 688 59.61      
13 A 633 606 231.25      
14 A 381 364 99.76      
15 A 287 274 45.14      
16 A 254 243 67.39      
17 A 192 183 37.65      
18 A 179 172 16.65      

Unscaled Zero Point Vibrational Energy (zpe) 13271.3 cm-1
Scaled (by 0.9565) Zero Point Vibrational Energy (zpe) 12694.0 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 wB97X-D/6-311G**
ABC
0.39621 0.16848 0.11927

See section I.F.4 to change rotational constant units
Geometric Data calculated at wB97X-D/6-311G**

Point Group is C1

Cartesians (Å)
Atom x (Å) y (Å) z (Å)
H1 0.364 0.979 0.028
O2 -0.611 1.121 0.011
O3 1.848 0.049 -0.077
C4 -1.176 -0.071 -0.001
O5 -0.591 -1.127 0.020
H6 -2.268 0.014 -0.030
H7 2.461 -0.167 0.625
H8 1.328 -0.747 -0.251

Atom - Atom Distances (Å)
  H1 O2 O3 C4 O5 H6 H7 H8
H10.98541.75441.86312.31222.80422.46291.9968
O20.98542.68401.31842.24821.99363.38692.7056
O31.75442.68403.02712.71004.11700.95650.9675
C41.86311.31843.02711.20781.09653.69102.6055
O52.31222.24822.71001.20782.02923.25581.9751
H62.80421.99364.11701.09652.02924.77773.6828
H72.46293.38690.95653.69103.25584.77771.5452
H81.99682.70560.96752.60551.97513.68281.5452

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 107.055 H1 O3 H7 128.158
H1 O3 H8 89.552 O2 H1 O3 155.865
O2 C4 O5 125.681 O2 C4 H6 110.955
O5 C4 H6 123.363 H7 O3 H8 106.856
Electronic energy levels
Charges, Dipole, Quadrupole and Polarizability
Charges from optimized geometry at wB97X-D/6-311G** Charges (e)
Number Element Mulliken CHELPG AIM ESP
1 H 0.279      
2 O -0.307      
3 O -0.513      
4 C 0.265      
5 O -0.383      
6 H 0.115      
7 H 0.273      
8 H 0.272      


Electric dipole moments
Electric dipole components in Debye
(What's a Debye? See section VII.A.3)
  x y z Total
  0.476 0.156 1.428 1.513
CHELPG        
AIM        
ESP        


Electric Quadrupole moment
Quadrupole components in D Å
Primitive
 xyz
x -18.532 -1.633 3.787
y -1.633 -27.451 -0.002
z 3.787 -0.002 -22.518
Traceless
 xyz
x 6.452 -1.633 3.787
y -1.633 -6.926 -0.002
z 3.787 -0.002 0.474
Polar
3z2-r20.948
x2-y28.919
xy-1.633
xz3.787
yz-0.002


Polarizabilities
Components of the polarizability tensor.
Units are Å3 (Angstrom cubed)
Change units.
  x y z
x 4.417 -0.205 0.164
y -0.205 3.911 0.019
z 0.164 0.019 2.283


<r2> (average value of r2) Å2
<r2> 92.723
(<r2>)1/2 9.629