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

using model chemistry: B3LYPultrafine/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 B3LYPultrafine/6-311+G(3df,2pd)
 hartrees
Energy at 0K-266.320793
Energy at 298.15K-266.325657
Counterpoise corrected energy-266.320088
CP Energy at 298.15K-266.324905
Counterpoise optimized geometry corrected energy 
CP opt. Energy at 298.15K 
Nuclear repulsion energy124.282580
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/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 3886 3770 92.70      
2 A 3665 3555 246.97      
3 A 3361 3260 592.44      
4 A 3049 2957 70.85      
5 A 1774 1721 335.70      
6 A 1626 1577 124.74      
7 A 1451 1408 1.56      
8 A 1388 1347 15.36      
9 A 1213 1176 225.03      
10 A 1070 1038 7.00      
11 A 928 900 121.71      
12 A 701 680 47.71      
13 A 614 596 156.52      
14 A 371 359 69.98      
15 A 274 266 96.05      
16 A 214 207 29.75      
17 A 191 186 40.23      
18 A 172 167 11.85      

Unscaled Zero Point Vibrational Energy (zpe) 12973.6 cm-1
Scaled (by 0.97) Zero Point Vibrational Energy (zpe) 12584.4 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/6-311+G(3df,2pd)
ABC
0.39524 0.16517 0.11725

See section I.F.4 to change rotational constant units
Geometric Data calculated at B3LYPultrafine/6-311+G(3df,2pd)

Point Group is C1

Cartesians (Å)
Atom x (Å) y (Å) z (Å)
H1 0.398 0.966 -0.001
O2 -0.578 1.129 0.006
O3 1.902 -0.000 -0.090
C4 -1.203 -0.039 0.008
O5 -0.672 -1.124 0.003
H6 -2.290 0.099 0.016
H7 2.562 -0.085 0.604
H8 1.329 -0.783 -0.029

Atom - Atom Distances (Å)
  H1 O2 O3 C4 O5 H6 H7 H8
H10.98881.78991.88922.34782.82382.48051.9813
O20.98882.72631.32432.25531.99813.41852.7002
O31.78992.72633.10642.81034.19430.96080.9721
C41.88921.32433.10641.20861.09593.81152.6388
O52.34782.25532.81031.20862.02843.44942.0299
H62.82381.99814.19431.09592.02844.89053.7248
H72.48053.41850.96083.81153.44944.89051.5519
H81.98132.70020.97212.63882.02993.72481.5519

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 108.653 H1 O3 H7 126.088
H1 O3 H8 86.322 O2 H1 O3 156.693
O2 C4 O5 125.793 O2 C4 H6 110.945
O5 C4 H6 123.261 H7 O3 H8 106.823
Electronic energy levels
Charges, Dipole, Quadrupole and Polarizability
Charges from optimized geometry at B3LYPultrafine/6-311+G(3df,2pd) Charges (e)
Number Element Mulliken CHELPG AIM ESP
1 H 0.338      
2 O -0.472      
3 O -0.443      
4 C 0.688      
5 O -0.625      
6 H 0.079      
7 H 0.144      
8 H 0.291      


Electric dipole moments
Electric dipole components in Debye
(What's a Debye? See section VII.A.3)
  x y z Total
  0.567 0.280 1.217 1.372
CHELPG        
AIM        
ESP        


Electric Quadrupole moment
Quadrupole components in D Å
Primitive
 xyz
x -17.979 -1.429 3.555
y -1.429 -28.108 -0.095
z 3.555 -0.095 -23.787
Traceless
 xyz
x 7.969 -1.429 3.555
y -1.429 -7.225 -0.095
z 3.555 -0.095 -0.744
Polar
3z2-r2-1.488
x2-y210.129
xy-1.429
xz3.555
yz-0.095


Polarizabilities
Components of the polarizability tensor.
Units are Å3 (Angstrom cubed)
Change units.
  x y z
x 5.551 -0.174 0.074
y -0.174 5.016 0.013
z 0.074 0.013 3.413


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