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All results from a given calculation for H2OHCOOH (Water formic acid dimer 1)

using model chemistry: PBEPBE/6-311+G(3df,2pd)

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/6-311+G(3df,2pd)
 hartrees
Energy at 0K-266.020836
Energy at 298.15K-266.024264
Counterpoise corrected energy-266.020523
CP Energy at 298.15K-266.023918
Counterpoise optimized geometry corrected energy 
CP opt. Energy at 298.15K 
Nuclear repulsion energy115.608784
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/6-311+G(3df,2pd)
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 3813 3774 92.12      
2 A 3693 3656 48.90      
3 A 3621 3585 49.72      
4 A 2991 2961 13.07      
5 A 1770 1752 325.53      
6 A 1593 1577 83.15      
7 A 1355 1341 6.06      
8 A 1238 1225 2.11      
9 A 1065 1054 248.39      
10 A 1013 1003 4.24      
11 A 657 650 126.07      
12 A 604 598 33.07      
13 A 353 349 101.59      
14 A 240 237 105.37      
15 A 124 123 6.09      
16 A 81 80 96.06      
17 A 53 52 30.29      
18 A 51 51 6.90      

Unscaled Zero Point Vibrational Energy (zpe) 12156.1 cm-1
Scaled (by 0.99) Zero Point Vibrational Energy (zpe) 12034.5 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/6-311+G(3df,2pd)
ABC
0.70608 0.09011 0.08010

See section I.F.4 to change rotational constant units
Geometric Data calculated at PBEPBE/6-311+G(3df,2pd)

Point Group is C1

Cartesians (Å)
Atom x (Å) y (Å) z (Å)
O1 0.246 0.915 0.012
C2 0.860 -0.302 0.038
H3 0.953 1.587 -0.069
O4 -2.432 -0.334 -0.070
H5 -3.264 -0.098 0.365
H6 -1.883 0.467 -0.012
H7 0.093 -1.093 0.120
O8 2.053 -0.462 -0.021

Atom - Atom Distances (Å)
  O1 C2 H3 O4 H5 H6 H7 O8
O11.36260.97902.95563.67052.17622.01592.2719
C21.36261.89413.29384.14242.84951.10501.2050
H30.97901.89413.89164.56193.05002.82072.3268
O42.95563.29383.89160.96830.97192.64324.4867
H53.67054.14244.56190.96831.53883.51025.3436
H62.17622.84953.05000.97191.53882.52104.0445
H72.01591.10502.82072.64323.51022.52102.0635
O82.27191.20502.32684.48675.34364.04452.0635

picture of Water formic acid dimer 1 state 1 conformation 1
More geometry information
Calculated Bond Angles
atom1 atom2 atom3 angle atom1 atom2 atom3 angle
H1 O2 H4 63.751 H1 O3 H5 21.734
H1 O3 C6 22.305 O2 H1 O3 106.834
O3 C6 O7 59.947 O3 C6 H8 34.850
H5 O3 C6 4.396 O7 C6 H8 25.176
Electronic energy levels
Charges, Dipole, Quadrupole and Polarizability
Charges from optimized geometry at PBEPBE/6-311+G(3df,2pd) Charges (e)
Number Element Mulliken CHELPG AIM ESP
1 O -0.396      
2 C 0.701      
3 H 0.193      
4 O -0.357      
5 H 0.153      
6 H 0.208      
7 H 0.090      
8 O -0.593      


Electric dipole moments
Electric dipole components in Debye
(What's a Debye? See section VII.A.3)
  x y z Total
  -1.485 2.312 0.780 2.857
CHELPG        
AIM        
ESP        


Electric Quadrupole moment
Quadrupole components in D Å
Primitive
 xyz
x -26.222 0.747 -2.736
y 0.747 -21.538 -0.378
z -2.736 -0.378 -24.733
Traceless
 xyz
x -3.086 0.747 -2.736
y 0.747 3.939 -0.378
z -2.736 -0.378 -0.853
Polar
3z2-r2-1.706
x2-y2-4.684
xy0.747
xz-2.736
yz-0.378


Polarizabilities
Components of the polarizability tensor.
Units are Å3 (Angstrom cubed)
Change units.
  x y z
x 0.000 0.000 0.000
y 0.000 0.000 0.000
z 0.000 0.000 0.000


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