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All results from a given calculation for H2CNCN (cyanamide, methylene)

using model chemistry: HF/3-21G*

19 10 17 12 22

States and conformations

State Conformation minimum conformation conformer description state description
1 1 yes 1A'
Energy calculated at HF/3-21G*
 hartrees
Energy at 0K-184.697818
Energy at 298.15K 
HF Energy-184.697818
Nuclear repulsion energy92.841302
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 HF/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' 3394 3064 10.64 81.03 0.54 0.70
2 A' 3273 2954 10.02 73.50 0.15 0.26
3 A' 2552 2304 49.92 128.07 0.30 0.46
4 A' 1852 1671 58.73 48.62 0.27 0.42
5 A' 1655 1494 20.05 33.52 0.44 0.61
6 A' 1343 1212 6.46 3.90 0.74 0.85
7 A' 962 869 4.26 1.38 0.07 0.14
8 A' 675 609 7.97 2.87 0.56 0.72
9 A' 283 255 8.23 8.88 0.56 0.72
10 A" 1262 1140 24.68 1.00 0.75 0.86
11 A" 863 779 3.02 16.09 0.75 0.86
12 A" 446 403 11.52 1.00 0.75 0.86

Unscaled Zero Point Vibrational Energy (zpe) 9280.5 cm-1
Scaled (by 0.9026) Zero Point Vibrational Energy (zpe) 8376.6 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 HF/3-21G*
ABC
2.42879 0.17848 0.16626

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

Point Group is Cs

Cartesians (Å)
Atom x (Å) y (Å) z (Å)
C1 0.079 -1.566 0.000
N2 -0.577 -0.488 0.000
C3 0.000 0.728 0.000
N4 0.410 1.793 0.000
H5 -0.460 -2.491 0.000
H6 1.155 -1.618 0.000

Atom - Atom Distances (Å)
  C1 N2 C3 N4 H5 H6
C11.26212.29533.37591.07081.0768
N21.26211.34592.48592.00672.0676
C32.29531.34591.14183.25192.6142
N43.37592.48591.14184.37223.4914
H51.07082.00673.25194.37221.8359
H61.07682.06762.61423.49141.8359

picture of cyanamide, methylene state 1 conformation 1
More geometry information
Calculated Bond Angles
atom1 atom2 atom3 angle atom1 atom2 atom3 angle
C1 N2 C3 123.282 N2 C1 H5 118.444
N2 C1 H6 124.065 N2 C3 N4 175.658
H5 C1 H6 117.490
Electronic energy levels
Charges, Dipole, Quadrupole and Polarizability
Charges from optimized geometry at HF/3-21G* Charges (e)
Number Element Mulliken CHELPG AIM ESP
1 C -0.050      
2 N -0.624      
3 C 0.632      
4 N -0.452      
5 H 0.259      
6 H 0.235      


Electric dipole moments
Electric dipole components in Debye
(What's a Debye? See section VII.A.3)
  x y z Total
  0.926 -4.546 0.000 4.639
CHELPG        
AIM        
ESP        


Electric Quadrupole moment
Quadrupole components in D Å
Primitive
 xyz
x -24.282 -3.054 0.000
y -3.054 -23.827 0.000
z 0.000 0.000 -22.899
Traceless
 xyz
x -0.919 -3.054 0.000
y -3.054 -0.237 0.000
z 0.000 0.000 1.156
Polar
3z2-r22.311
x2-y2-0.455
xy-3.054
xz0.000
yz0.000


Polarizabilities
Components of the polarizability tensor.
Units are Å3 (Angstrom cubed)
Change units.
  x y z
x 2.804 0.159 0.000
y 0.159 7.272 0.000
z 0.000 0.000 1.521


<r2> (average value of r2) Å2
<r2> 70.776
(<r2>)1/2 8.413