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

using model chemistry: B3LYP/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 B3LYP/6-311+G(3df,2pd)
 hartrees
Energy at 0K-266.320802
Energy at 298.15K-266.325676
Counterpoise corrected energy-266.320090
CP Energy at 298.15K-266.324899
Counterpoise optimized geometry corrected energy 
CP opt. Energy at 298.15K 
Nuclear repulsion energy124.282614
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 B3LYP/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 3747 93.02      
2 A 3667 3536 245.51      
3 A 3361 3241 594.28      
4 A 3050 2940 70.97      
5 A 1774 1711 336.01      
6 A 1626 1567 124.35      
7 A 1452 1400 1.58      
8 A 1389 1339 15.27      
9 A 1213 1170 225.00      
10 A 1070 1032 7.21      
11 A 930 897 121.32      
12 A 702 676 47.93      
13 A 616 594 156.31      
14 A 370 356 69.90      
15 A 276 267 96.92      
16 A 214 207 30.15      
17 A 193 186 39.17      
18 A 174 167 11.96      

Unscaled Zero Point Vibrational Energy (zpe) 12980.8 cm-1
Scaled (by 0.9642) Zero Point Vibrational Energy (zpe) 12516.1 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 B3LYP/6-311+G(3df,2pd)
ABC
0.39525 0.16516 0.11725

See section I.F.4 to change rotational constant units
Geometric Data calculated at B3LYP/6-311+G(3df,2pd)

Point Group is C1

Cartesians (Å)
Atom x (Å) y (Å) z (Å)
H1 0.398 0.965 -0.002
O2 -0.577 1.129 0.006
O3 1.902 -0.001 -0.090
C4 -1.203 -0.038 0.009
O5 -0.673 -1.124 0.003
H6 -2.290 0.100 0.017
H7 2.561 -0.084 0.605
H8 1.329 -0.784 -0.029

Atom - Atom Distances (Å)
  H1 O2 O3 C4 O5 H6 H7 H8
H10.98891.78931.88912.34762.82372.47881.9810
O20.98892.72601.32432.25541.99823.41682.7004
O31.78932.72603.10642.81064.19440.96080.9720
C41.88911.32433.10641.20861.09593.81072.6394
O52.34762.25542.81061.20862.02843.44962.0307
H62.82371.99824.19441.09592.02844.88953.7254
H72.47883.41680.96083.81073.44964.88951.5519
H81.98102.70040.97202.63942.03073.72541.5519

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 108.639 H1 O3 H7 125.974
H1 O3 H8 86.336 O2 H1 O3 156.745
O2 C4 O5 125.793 O2 C4 H6 110.948
O5 C4 H6 123.260 H7 O3 H8 106.816
Electronic energy levels
Charges, Dipole, Quadrupole and Polarizability
Charges from optimized geometry at B3LYP/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 0.687      
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
  0.569 0.282 1.220 1.375
CHELPG        
AIM        
ESP        


Electric Quadrupole moment
Quadrupole components in D Å
Primitive
 xyz
x -17.986 -1.426 3.559
y -1.426 -28.109 -0.097
z 3.559 -0.097 -23.784
Traceless
 xyz
x 7.960 -1.426 3.559
y -1.426 -7.224 -0.097
z 3.559 -0.097 -0.736
Polar
3z2-r2-1.471
x2-y210.123
xy-1.426
xz3.559
yz-0.097


Polarizabilities
Components of the polarizability tensor.
Units are Å3 (Angstrom cubed)
Change units.
  x y z
x 5.551 -0.174 0.073
y -0.174 5.016 0.013
z 0.073 0.013 3.413


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