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All results from a given calculation for H2OHCOOH (Water formic acid dimer 1)

using model chemistry: wB97X-D/3-21G*

19 10 17 12 22

States and conformations

State Conformation minimum conformation conformer description state description
1 1 yes C1 1A
Energy calculated at wB97X-D/3-21G*
 hartrees
Energy at 0K-264.617049
Energy at 298.15K-264.621611
HF Energy-264.617049
Nuclear repulsion energy118.873718
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 wB97X-D/3-21G*
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 3685 3493 30.10      
2 A 3601 3413 28.30      
3 A 3539 3354 38.69      
4 A 3142 2978 13.11      
5 A 1811 1717 210.50      
6 A 1721 1631 62.59      
7 A 1413 1340 20.45      
8 A 1277 1210 39.62      
9 A 1172 1111 7.79      
10 A 1071 1015 272.08      
11 A 667 632 263.34      
12 A 656 622 234.30      
13 A 598 567 149.99      
14 A 353 334 123.63      
15 A 254 241 94.68      
16 A 200 190 2.20      
17 A 158 149 38.97      
18 A 145 137 8.43      

Unscaled Zero Point Vibrational Energy (zpe) 12730.9 cm-1
Scaled (by 0.9478) Zero Point Vibrational Energy (zpe) 12066.3 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 wB97X-D/3-21G*
ABC
0.57587 0.11189 0.09459

See section I.F.4 to change rotational constant units
Geometric Data calculated at wB97X-D/3-21G*

Point Group is C1

Cartesians (Å)
Atom x (Å) y (Å) z (Å)
H1 1.896 0.550 -0.108
O2 2.327 -0.331 -0.092
O3 -0.300 1.010 0.011
H4 2.923 -0.363 0.686
H5 -1.027 1.677 0.004
C6 -0.767 -0.273 0.007
O7 -1.938 -0.591 0.002
H8 0.102 -0.933 0.009

Atom - Atom Distances (Å)
  H1 O2 O3 H4 H5 C6 O7 H8
H10.98042.24661.58593.13492.78994.00202.3298
O20.98042.95100.98013.91033.09644.27442.3067
O32.24662.95103.56690.98681.36572.29101.9840
H41.58590.98013.56694.49723.75294.91432.9557
H53.13493.91030.98684.49721.96712.44412.8436
C62.78993.09641.36573.75291.96711.21351.0917
O74.00204.27442.29104.91432.44411.21352.0693
H82.32982.30671.98402.95572.84361.09172.0693

picture of Water formic acid dimer 1 state 1 conformation 1
More geometry information
Calculated Bond Angles
atom1 atom2 atom3 angle atom1 atom2 atom3 angle
H1 O2 H4 107.983 H1 O3 H5 149.155
H1 O3 C6 98.161 O2 H1 O3 127.795
O3 C6 O7 125.212 O3 C6 H8 107.155
H5 O3 C6 112.483 O7 C6 H8 127.633
Electronic energy levels
Charges, Dipole, Quadrupole and Polarizability
Charges from optimized geometry at wB97X-D/3-21G* Charges (e)
Number Element Mulliken CHELPG AIM ESP
1 H 0.365      
2 O -0.682      
3 O -0.591      
4 H 0.344      
5 H 0.387      
6 C 0.386      
7 O -0.470      
8 H 0.261      


Electric dipole moments
Electric dipole components in Debye
(What's a Debye? See section VII.A.3)
  x y z Total
  0.641 2.545 1.579 3.063
CHELPG        
AIM        
ESP        


Electric Quadrupole moment
Quadrupole components in D Å
Primitive
 xyz
x -28.397 -2.289 4.436
y -2.289 -20.624 -0.877
z 4.436 -0.877 -21.654
Traceless
 xyz
x -7.258 -2.289 4.436
y -2.289 4.401 -0.877
z 4.436 -0.877 2.856
Polar
3z2-r25.713
x2-y2-7.773
xy-2.289
xz4.436
yz-0.877


Polarizabilities
Components of the polarizability tensor.
Units are Å3 (Angstrom cubed)
Change units.
  x y z
x 3.650 0.013 0.273
y 0.013 3.054 -0.059
z 0.273 -0.059 1.577


<r2> (average value of r2) Å2
<r2> 111.763
(<r2>)1/2 10.572