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All results from a given calculation for C2H4O4 (Formic acid dimer)

using model chemistry: PBEPBE/cc-pVTZ

19 10 17 12 22

States and conformations

State Conformation minimum conformation conformer description state description
1 1 yes C2H 1AG
Energy calculated at PBEPBE/cc-pVTZ
 hartrees
Energy at 0K-379.303579
Energy at 298.15K-379.309604
HF Energy-379.303579
Counterpoise corrected energy 
CP Energy at 298.15K 
Counterpoise optimized geometry corrected energy 
CP opt. Energy at 298.15K 
Nuclear repulsion energy236.506011
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 PBEPBE/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 Ag 2977 2956 0.00      
2 Ag 2643 2624 0.00      
3 Ag 1616 1605 0.00      
4 Ag 1462 1452 0.00      
5 Ag 1353 1343 0.00      
6 Ag 1241 1232 0.00      
7 Ag 674 669 0.00      
8 Ag 225 224 0.00      
9 Ag 182 180 0.00      
10 Au 1105 1098 135.71      
11 Au 991 984 35.43      
12 Au 195 193 8.52      
13 Au 75 74 1.56      
14 Bg 1058 1051 0.00      
15 Bg 1000 993 0.00      
16 Bg 277 275 0.00      
17 Bu 2981 2960 1.30      
18 Bu 2805 2786 3449.40      
19 Bu 1718 1706 695.75      
20 Bu 1434 1425 2.19      
21 Bu 1358 1348 39.63      
22 Bu 1244 1235 256.01      
23 Bu 722 717 27.15      
24 Bu 319 317 91.97      

Unscaled Zero Point Vibrational Energy (zpe) 14826.4 cm-1
Scaled (by 0.9931) Zero Point Vibrational Energy (zpe) 14724.1 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 PBEPBE/cc-pVTZ
ABC
0.19805 0.07957 0.05676

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

Point Group is C2h

Cartesians (Å)
Atom x (Å) y (Å) z (Å)
C1 1.871 -0.059 0.000
C2 -1.871 0.059 0.000
O3 1.303 1.035 0.000
O4 -1.303 -1.035 0.000
O5 1.303 -1.242 0.000
O6 -1.303 1.242 0.000
H7 2.973 -0.130 0.000
H8 -2.973 0.130 0.000
H9 -0.278 1.147 0.000
H10 0.278 -1.147 0.000

Atom - Atom Distances (Å)
  C1 C2 O3 O4 O5 O6 H7 H8 H9 H10
C13.74301.23263.32011.31233.43011.10514.84772.46421.9284
C23.74303.32011.23263.43011.31234.84771.10511.92842.4642
O31.23263.32013.32782.27732.61412.03664.37101.58512.4105
O43.32011.23263.32782.61412.27734.37102.03662.41051.5851
O51.31233.43012.27732.61413.60072.00704.49122.86521.0291
O63.43011.31232.61412.27733.60074.49122.00701.02912.8652
H71.10514.84772.03664.37102.00704.49125.95263.49352.8807
H84.84771.10514.37102.03664.49122.00705.95262.88073.4935
H92.46421.92841.58512.41052.86521.02913.49352.88072.3606
H101.92842.46422.41051.58511.02912.86522.88073.49352.3606

picture of Formic acid dimer state 1 conformation 1
More geometry information
Calculated Bond Angles
atom1 atom2 atom3 angle atom1 atom2 atom3 angle
C1 O3 H9 121.478 C1 O5 H10 110.310
C2 O4 H10 121.478 C2 O6 H9 110.310
O3 C1 O5 126.948 O3 C1 H7 121.095
O3 H9 O6 178.736 O4 C2 O6 126.948
O4 C2 H8 121.095 O4 H10 O5 178.736
O5 C1 H7 111.956 O6 C2 H8 111.956
Electronic energy levels
Charges, Dipole, Quadrupole and Polarizability
Charges from optimized geometry at PBEPBE/cc-pVTZ Charges (e)
Number Element Mulliken CHELPG AIM ESP
1 C 0.194      
2 C 0.194      
3 O -0.306      
4 O -0.306      
5 O -0.217      
6 O -0.217      
7 H 0.091      
8 H 0.091      
9 H 0.238      
10 H 0.238      


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


Electric Quadrupole moment
Quadrupole components in D Å
Primitive
 xyz
x -27.398 -0.987 0.000
y -0.987 -40.982 0.000
z 0.000 0.000 -33.814
Traceless
 xyz
x 10.000 -0.987 0.000
y -0.987 -10.376 0.000
z 0.000 0.000 0.376
Polar
3z2-r20.752
x2-y213.584
xy-0.987
xz0.000
yz0.000


Polarizabilities
Components of the polarizability tensor.
Units are Å3 (Angstrom cubed)
Change units.
  x y z
x 8.193 -0.411 0.000
y -0.411 6.752 0.000
z 0.000 0.000 3.645


<r2> (average value of r2) Å2
<r2> 179.967
(<r2>)1/2 13.415