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All results from a given calculation for C4H6O2 (2-Propenoic acid, methyl ester)

using model chemistry: B3LYP/6-31G**

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/6-31G**
 hartrees
Energy at 0K-306.476502
Energy at 298.15K-306.483097
Nuclear repulsion energy227.118530
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/6-31G**
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 3264 3136 3.45      
2 A 3207 3081 4.33      
3 A 3174 3049 18.35      
4 A 3168 3044 3.78      
5 A 3139 3016 21.71      
6 A 3063 2943 30.33      
7 A 1810 1739 166.79      
8 A 1711 1644 29.58      
9 A 1510 1451 6.64      
10 A 1496 1437 5.99      
11 A 1483 1424 21.91      
12 A 1443 1387 66.59      
13 A 1336 1284 81.92      
14 A 1238 1189 359.81      
15 A 1209 1162 33.30      
16 A 1179 1133 0.73      
17 A 1084 1041 2.45      
18 A 1036 995 16.80      
19 A 1031 991 24.90      
20 A 998 959 15.36      
21 A 873 839 9.51      
22 A 820 787 26.63      
23 A 669 643 5.28      
24 A 532 511 0.44      
25 A 475 456 1.40      
26 A 341 327 16.89      
27 A 222 213 3.90      
28 A 202 194 4.04      
29 A 127 122 0.14      
30 A 101 97 3.15      

Unscaled Zero Point Vibrational Energy (zpe) 20968.2 cm-1
Scaled (by 0.9608) Zero Point Vibrational Energy (zpe) 20146.3 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/6-31G**
ABC
0.34184 0.07731 0.06381

See section I.F.4 to change rotational constant units
Geometric Data calculated at B3LYP/6-31G**

Point Group is C1

Cartesians (Å)
Atom x (Å) y (Å) z (Å)
H1 3.034 -0.896 -0.000
H2 2.422 0.538 0.888
H3 2.422 0.538 -0.888
C4 2.303 -0.088 -0.000
O5 1.017 -0.726 0.000
O6 0.061 1.327 -0.000
C7 -0.044 0.117 -0.000
H8 -1.241 -1.730 -0.000
C9 -1.318 -0.647 -0.000
H10 -3.432 -0.551 0.000
H11 -2.524 1.074 0.000
C12 -2.491 -0.012 0.000

Atom - Atom Distances (Å)
  H1 H2 H3 C4 O5 O6 C7 H8 C9 H10 H11 C12
H11.79421.79421.08982.02433.71223.23994.35554.35856.47495.89655.5948
H21.79421.77581.09292.08862.64372.65494.39904.02236.02065.05405.0228
H31.79421.77581.09292.08862.64302.65444.39884.02206.02035.05355.0224
C41.08981.09291.09291.43582.65112.35553.90573.66325.75344.96464.7940
O52.02432.08862.08861.43582.26471.35462.47072.33564.45203.97193.5794
O63.71222.64372.64302.65112.26471.21473.32212.40723.96562.59712.8812
C73.23992.65492.65442.35551.35461.21472.20041.48503.45332.65842.4502
H84.35554.39904.39883.90572.47073.32212.20041.08552.48753.08272.1242
C94.35854.02234.02203.66322.33562.40721.48501.08552.11652.10121.3340
H106.47496.02066.02035.75344.45203.96563.45332.48752.11651.86131.0850
H115.89655.05405.05354.96463.97192.59712.65843.08272.10121.86131.0858
C125.59485.02285.02244.79403.57942.88122.45022.12421.33401.08501.0858

picture of 2-Propenoic acid, methyl ester state 1 conformation 1
More geometry information
Calculated Bond Angles
atom1 atom2 atom3 angle atom1 atom2 atom3 angle
H1 C4 H2 110.574 H1 C4 H3 110.576
H1 C4 O5 105.735 H2 C4 H3 108.668
H2 C4 O5 110.641 H3 C4 O5 110.640
C4 O5 C7 115.129 O5 C7 O6 123.540
O5 C7 C9 110.590 O6 C7 C9 125.871
C7 C9 H8 116.900 C7 C9 C12 120.636
H8 C9 C12 122.464 C9 C12 H10 121.747
C9 C12 H11 120.189 H10 C12 H11 118.064
Electronic energy levels
Charges, Dipole, Quadrupole and Polarizability
Charges from optimized geometry at B3LYP/6-31G** Charges (e)
Number Element Mulliken CHELPG AIM ESP
1 H 0.120      
2 H 0.131      
3 H 0.131      
4 C -0.083      
5 O -0.470      
6 O -0.491      
7 C 0.597      
8 H 0.109      
9 C -0.094      
10 H 0.114      
11 H 0.137      
12 C -0.201      


Electric dipole moments
Electric dipole components in Debye
(What's a Debye? See section VII.A.3)
  x y z Total
  0.095 -1.484 -0.000 1.487
CHELPG        
AIM        
ESP        


Electric Quadrupole moment
Quadrupole components in D Å
Primitive
 xyz
x -25.825 0.732 -0.000
y 0.732 -38.141 0.001
z -0.000 0.001 -35.526
Traceless
 xyz
x 11.009 0.732 -0.000
y 0.732 -7.466 0.001
z -0.000 0.001 -3.543
Polar
3z2-r2-7.086
x2-y212.316
xy0.732
xz-0.000
yz0.001


Polarizabilities
Components of the polarizability tensor.
Units are Å3 (Angstrom cubed)
Change units.
  x y z
x 10.668 -0.499 -0.001
y -0.499 6.762 0.000
z -0.001 0.000 3.837


<r2> (average value of r2) Å2
<r2> 177.451
(<r2>)1/2 13.321