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All results from a given calculation for CH3OCHO (methyl formate)

using model chemistry: mPW1PW91/cc-pVTZ

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States and conformations

State Conformation minimum conformation conformer description state description
1 1 yes CS 1A'
Energy calculated at mPW1PW91/cc-pVTZ
 hartrees
Energy at 0K-229.088502
Energy at 298.15K-229.093392
Nuclear repulsion energy122.949619
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 mPW1PW91/cc-pVTZ
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' 3185 3055 11.53      
2 A' 3074 2948 13.04      
3 A' 3059 2934 64.29      
4 A' 1837 1762 298.42      
5 A' 1501 1439 11.09      
6 A' 1472 1412 6.49      
7 A' 1404 1347 1.19      
8 A' 1256 1204 258.08      
9 A' 1196 1147 52.64      
10 A' 967 928 23.33      
11 A' 787 755 8.47      
12 A' 302 290 14.28      
13 A" 3150 3022 16.63      
14 A" 1487 1426 10.22      
15 A" 1182 1134 1.00      
16 A" 1054 1011 0.02      
17 A" 349 334 25.13      
18 A" 122 117 0.17      

Unscaled Zero Point Vibrational Energy (zpe) 13690.8 cm-1
Scaled (by 0.9592) Zero Point Vibrational Energy (zpe) 13132.2 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 mPW1PW91/cc-pVTZ
ABC
0.67870 0.23195 0.17866

See section I.F.4 to change rotational constant units
Geometric Data calculated at mPW1PW91/cc-pVTZ

Point Group is Cs

Cartesians (Å)
Atom x (Å) y (Å) z (Å)
C1 1.352 0.408 0.000
O2 0.000 0.867 0.000
C3 -0.925 -0.089 0.000
O4 -0.715 -1.267 0.000
H5 1.969 1.301 0.000
H6 1.550 -0.193 0.886
H7 1.550 -0.193 -0.886
H8 -1.920 0.371 0.000

Atom - Atom Distances (Å)
  C1 O2 C3 O4 H5 H6 H7 H8
C11.42832.33072.66001.08511.08851.08853.2729
O21.42831.33052.25032.01612.07682.07681.9834
C32.33071.33051.19583.21012.63072.63071.0972
O42.66002.25031.19583.71382.65822.65822.0339
H51.08512.01613.21013.71381.78651.78653.9988
H61.08852.07682.63072.65821.78651.77103.6262
H71.08852.07682.63072.65821.78651.77103.6262
H83.27291.98341.09722.03393.99883.62623.6262

picture of methyl formate state 1 conformation 1
More geometry information
Calculated Bond Angles
atom1 atom2 atom3 angle atom1 atom2 atom3 angle
C1 O2 C3 115.256 O2 C1 H5 105.856
O2 C1 H6 110.485 O2 C1 H7 110.485
O2 C3 O4 125.860 O2 C3 H8 109.191
O4 C3 H8 124.949 H5 C1 H6 110.556
H5 C1 H7 110.556 H6 C1 H7 108.887
Electronic energy levels

Electronic state

Charges, Dipole, Quadrupole and Polarizability
Charges from optimized geometry at mPW1PW91/cc-pVTZ Charges (e)
Number Element Mulliken CHELPG AIM ESP
1 C -0.073 0.000    
2 O -0.196 0.000    
3 C 0.243 0.000    
4 O -0.309 0.000    
5 H 0.098 0.000    
6 H 0.089 0.000    
7 H 0.089 0.000    
8 H 0.059 0.000    


Electric dipole moments
Electric dipole components in Debye
(What's a Debye? See section VII.A.3)
  x y z Total
  0.926 1.656 0.000 1.898
CHELPG        
AIM        
ESP        


Electric Quadrupole moment
Quadrupole components in D Å
Primitive
 xyz
x -19.259 -1.200 0.000
y -1.200 -27.986 0.000
z 0.000 0.000 -22.855
Traceless
 xyz
x 6.162 -1.200 0.000
y -1.200 -6.929 0.000
z 0.000 0.000 0.767
Polar
3z2-r21.535
x2-y28.728
xy-1.200
xz0.000
yz0.000


Polarizabilities
Components of the polarizability tensor.
Units are Å3 (Angstrom cubed)
Change units.
  x y z
x 5.318 0.309 0.000
y 0.309 4.805 0.000
z 0.000 0.000 3.421


<r2> (average value of r2) Å2
<r2> 70.524
(<r2>)1/2 8.398