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All results from a given calculation for CH3OH (Methyl alcohol)

using model chemistry: PBEPBEultrafine/cc-pVDZ

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States and conformations

State Conformation minimum conformation conformer description state description
1 1 yes CS 1A'
Energy calculated at PBEPBEultrafine/cc-pVDZ
 hartrees
Energy at 0K-115.578475
Energy at 298.15K-115.582615
HF Energy-115.578475
Nuclear repulsion energy39.968955
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 PBEPBEultrafine/cc-pVDZ
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' 3669 3648 14.28 81.12 0.29 0.45
2 A' 3040 3023 29.63 83.51 0.52 0.68
3 A' 2891 2874 72.18 159.32 0.06 0.11
4 A' 1438 1430 3.79 18.29 0.70 0.83
5 A' 1417 1409 8.14 8.44 0.61 0.76
6 A' 1342 1334 23.30 1.88 0.74 0.85
7 A' 1069 1063 18.54 6.04 0.49 0.66
8 A' 1029 1023 93.35 0.66 0.48 0.65
9 A" 2936 2919 85.43 91.18 0.75 0.86
10 A" 1414 1406 1.66 19.18 0.75 0.86
11 A" 1118 1111 0.20 5.78 0.75 0.86
12 A" 337 335 106.57 4.00 0.75 0.86

Unscaled Zero Point Vibrational Energy (zpe) 10849.0 cm-1
Scaled (by 0.9942) Zero Point Vibrational Energy (zpe) 10786.1 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 PBEPBEultrafine/cc-pVDZ
ABC
4.14829 0.82007 0.79024

See section I.F.4 to change rotational constant units
Geometric Data calculated at PBEPBEultrafine/cc-pVDZ

Point Group is Cs

Cartesians (Å)
Atom x (Å) y (Å) z (Å)
C1 -0.047 0.658 0.000
O2 -0.047 -0.762 0.000
H3 -1.108 0.981 0.000
H4 0.438 1.103 0.903
H5 0.438 1.103 -0.903
H6 0.889 -1.041 0.000

Atom - Atom Distances (Å)
  C1 O2 H3 H4 H5 H6
C11.42041.10871.11771.11771.9397
O21.42042.04042.12862.12860.9764
H31.10872.04041.79471.79472.8414
H41.11772.12861.79471.80622.3698
H51.11772.12861.79471.80622.3698
H61.93970.97642.84142.36982.3698

picture of Methyl alcohol state 1 conformation 1
More geometry information
Calculated Bond Angles
atom1 atom2 atom3 angle atom1 atom2 atom3 angle
C1 O2 H6 106.587 O2 C1 H3 106.918
O2 C1 H4 113.466 O2 C1 H5 113.466
H3 C1 H4 107.431 H3 C1 H5 107.431
H4 C1 H5 107.803
Electronic energy levels
Charges, Dipole, Quadrupole and Polarizability
Charges from optimized geometry at PBEPBEultrafine/cc-pVDZ Charges (e)
Number Element Mulliken CHELPG AIM ESP
1 C 0.035      
2 O -0.254      
3 H 0.044      
4 H 0.018      
5 H 0.018      
6 H 0.139      


Electric dipole moments
Electric dipole components in Debye
(What's a Debye? See section VII.A.3)
  x y z Total
  1.302 0.694 0.000 1.476
CHELPG        
AIM        
ESP        


Electric Quadrupole moment
Quadrupole components in D Å
Primitive
 xyz
x -11.658 -1.958 0.000
y -1.958 -13.048 0.000
z 0.000 0.000 -13.616
Traceless
 xyz
x 1.674 -1.958 0.000
y -1.958 -0.411 0.000
z 0.000 0.000 -1.263
Polar
3z2-r2-2.526
x2-y21.390
xy-1.958
xz0.000
yz0.000


Polarizabilities
Components of the polarizability tensor.
Units are Å3 (Angstrom cubed)
Change units.
  x y z
x 2.557 -0.151 0.000
y -0.151 2.768 0.000
z 0.000 0.000 2.267


<r2> (average value of r2) Å2
<r2> 23.768
(<r2>)1/2 4.875