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All results from a given calculation for H2OH2CO (water formaldehyde dimer)

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

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/6-31+G**
 hartrees
Energy at 0K-190.953676
Energy at 298.15K-190.956499
Counterpoise corrected energy-190.953135
CP Energy at 298.15K-190.955902
Counterpoise optimized geometry corrected energy 
CP opt. Energy at 298.15K 
Nuclear repulsion energy68.483271
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/6-31+G**
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 3905 3765 105.03      
2 A 3704 3571 228.04      
3 A 3033 2925 66.21      
4 A 2948 2842 57.72      
5 A 1801 1737 103.08      
6 A 1622 1564 106.76      
7 A 1532 1477 20.04      
8 A 1270 1224 7.95      
9 A 1204 1161 5.69      
10 A 521 502 132.17      
11 A 371 358 142.47      
12 A 190 183 29.83      
13 A 177 170 0.04      
14 A 73 71 53.05      
15 A 55 53 178.65      

Unscaled Zero Point Vibrational Energy (zpe) 11202.3 cm-1
Scaled (by 0.9642) Zero Point Vibrational Energy (zpe) 10801.2 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/6-31+G**
ABC
1.33348 0.16366 0.14577

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

Point Group is C1

Cartesians (Å)
Atom x (Å) y (Å) z (Å)
H1 1.068 -0.415 -0.003
O2 1.834 0.185 -0.006
O3 -0.897 -0.674 -0.001
H4 2.619 -0.372 0.037
C5 -1.344 0.455 0.002
H6 -0.680 1.338 0.007
H7 -2.435 0.638 -0.000

Atom - Atom Distances (Å)
  H1 O2 O3 H4 C5 H6 H7
H10.97261.98271.55172.56482.47643.6581
O20.97262.86300.96383.18942.76604.2924
O31.98272.86303.52941.21442.02402.0216
H41.55170.96383.52944.04873.71645.1539
C52.56483.18941.21444.04871.10471.1058
H62.47642.76602.02403.71641.10471.8886
H73.65814.29242.02165.15391.10581.8886

picture of water formaldehyde dimer state 1 conformation 1
More geometry information
Calculated Bond Angles
atom1 atom2 atom3 angle atom1 atom2 atom3 angle
H1 O2 H4 106.511 H1 O3 C5 104.087
O2 H1 O3 149.395 O3 C5 H6 121.477
O3 C5 H7 121.148 H6 C5 H7 117.374
Electronic energy levels
Charges, Dipole, Quadrupole and Polarizability
Charges from optimized geometry at B3LYP/6-31+G** Charges (e)
Number Element Mulliken CHELPG AIM ESP
1 H 0.385      
2 O -0.763      
3 O -0.348      
4 H 0.358      
5 C 0.092      
6 H 0.150      
7 H 0.125      


Electric dipole moments
Electric dipole components in Debye
(What's a Debye? See section VII.A.3)
  x y z Total
  -1.339 0.368 0.092 1.391
CHELPG        
AIM        
ESP        


Electric Quadrupole moment
Quadrupole components in D Å
Primitive
 xyz
x -14.142 -6.767 0.244
y -6.767 -19.183 -0.041
z 0.244 -0.041 -19.648
Traceless
 xyz
x 5.273 -6.767 0.244
y -6.767 -2.288 -0.041
z 0.244 -0.041 -2.986
Polar
3z2-r2-5.971
x2-y25.041
xy-6.767
xz0.244
yz-0.041


Polarizabilities
Components of the polarizability tensor.
Units are Å3 (Angstrom cubed)
Change units.
  x y z
x 4.178 -0.390 0.006
y -0.390 3.801 0.006
z 0.006 0.006 2.380


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