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All results from a given calculation for H2OHCOOH (Water formic acid dimer 2)

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-264.618109
Energy at 298.15K-264.622833
HF Energy-264.618109
Nuclear repulsion energy119.132246
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 3675 3483 27.37      
2 A 3578 3391 31.15      
3 A 3496 3314 96.64      
4 A 3197 3030 6.99      
5 A 1749 1658 220.98      
6 A 1727 1637 74.86      
7 A 1388 1315 7.14      
8 A 1365 1293 13.79      
9 A 1162 1101 8.25      
10 A 1123 1064 201.62      
11 A 705 668 238.31      
12 A 704 667 383.66      
13 A 626 593 194.04      
14 A 349 331 115.25      
15 A 298 283 116.56      
16 A 229 217 0.05      
17 A 158 150 34.12      
18 A 145 138 9.00      

Unscaled Zero Point Vibrational Energy (zpe) 12837.4 cm-1
Scaled (by 0.9478) Zero Point Vibrational Energy (zpe) 12167.3 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
0.66826 0.10828 0.09403

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 -1.781 0.466 -0.116
O2 -2.375 -0.315 -0.092
O3 0.212 0.990 0.005
H4 -2.928 -0.246 0.714
C5 0.642 -0.152 0.007
O6 1.950 -0.494 0.006
H7 0.010 -1.041 0.009
H8 2.546 0.293 -0.001

Atom - Atom Distances (Å)
  H1 O2 O3 H4 C5 O6 H7 H8
H10.98172.06431.58462.50303.85452.34324.3319
O20.98172.89940.98013.02274.33002.49454.9594
O32.06432.89943.44851.22002.28562.04062.4358
H41.58460.98013.44853.64054.93593.12425.5471
C52.50303.02271.22003.64051.35261.09041.9558
O63.85454.33002.28564.93591.35262.01600.9874
H72.34322.49452.04063.12421.09042.01602.8657
H84.33194.95942.43585.54711.95580.98742.8657

picture of Water formic acid dimer 2 state 1 conformation 1
More geometry information
Calculated Bond Angles
atom1 atom2 atom3 angle atom1 atom2 atom3 angle
H1 O2 H4 107.749 H1 O3 C5 95.871
O2 H1 O3 141.719 O3 C5 O6 125.274
O3 C5 H7 123.968 C5 O6 H8 112.458
O6 C5 H7 110.758
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 0.362      
2 O -0.700      
3 O -0.500      
4 H 0.339      
5 C 0.411      
6 O -0.562      
7 H 0.263      
8 H 0.387      


Electric dipole moments
Electric dipole components in Debye
(What's a Debye? See section VII.A.3)
  x y z Total
  1.665 0.660 1.639 2.428
CHELPG        
AIM        
ESP        


Electric Quadrupole moment
Quadrupole components in D Å
Primitive
 xyz
x -20.252 1.258 -4.449
y 1.258 -25.789 -0.810
z -4.449 -0.810 -21.730
Traceless
 xyz
x 3.507 1.258 -4.449
y 1.258 -4.798 -0.810
z -4.449 -0.810 1.290
Polar
3z2-r22.581
x2-y25.537
xy1.258
xz-4.449
yz-0.810


Polarizabilities
Components of the polarizability tensor.
Units are Å3 (Angstrom cubed)
Change units.
  x y z
x 3.861 -0.031 -0.271
y -0.031 2.922 -0.020
z -0.271 -0.020 1.545


<r2> (average value of r2) Å2
<r2> 113.011
(<r2>)1/2 10.631