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All results from a given calculation for HCOOHH2O (Formic acid water dimer)

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-264.643993
Energy at 298.15K-264.649774
HF Energy-264.643993
Nuclear repulsion energy127.085123
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 3702 3509 37.50      
2 A 3227 3058 482.60      
3 A 3147 2982 79.32      
4 A 2533 2401 949.99      
5 A 1787 1694 156.17      
6 A 1699 1611 220.73      
7 A 1576 1494 56.25      
8 A 1429 1354 28.06      
9 A 1275 1208 180.91      
10 A 1255 1190 191.54      
11 A 1080 1024 5.88      
12 A 940 891 473.52      
13 A 743 704 6.67      
14 A 528 500 82.80      
15 A 412 390 6.26      
16 A 373 353 179.87      
17 A 283 268 7.23      
18 A 254 241 45.03      

Unscaled Zero Point Vibrational Energy (zpe) 13121.0 cm-1
Scaled (by 0.9478) Zero Point Vibrational Energy (zpe) 12436.1 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 wB97X-D/3-21G*
ABC
0.38642 0.19693 0.13172

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 0.388 0.998 0.061
O2 -0.609 1.132 0.021
O3 1.785 0.072 -0.076
C4 -1.158 -0.089 -0.014
O5 -0.526 -1.144 0.038
H6 -2.246 -0.027 -0.084
H7 2.377 -0.227 0.645
H8 1.231 -0.687 -0.399

Atom - Atom Distances (Å)
  H1 O2 O3 C4 O5 H6 H7 H8
H11.00751.68081.89182.32882.83092.40781.9386
O21.00752.62001.33962.27812.00903.34032.6215
O31.68082.62002.94802.61314.03230.98050.9925
C41.89181.33962.94801.23141.09213.59932.4932
O52.32882.27812.61311.23142.05513.10451.8673
H62.83092.00904.03231.09212.05514.68533.5538
H72.40783.34030.98053.59933.10454.68531.6169
H81.93862.62150.99252.49321.86733.55381.6169

picture of Formic acid water dimer state 1 conformation 1
More geometry information
Calculated Bond Angles
atom1 atom2 atom3 angle atom1 atom2 atom3 angle
H1 O2 C4 106.564 H1 O3 H7 127.599
H1 O3 H8 89.107 O2 H1 O3 153.245
O2 C4 O5 124.719 O2 C4 H6 111.009
O5 C4 H6 124.269 H7 O3 H8 110.069
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 0.403      
2 O -0.599      
3 O -0.699      
4 C 0.424      
5 O -0.523      
6 H 0.235      
7 H 0.375      
8 H 0.384      


Electric dipole moments
Electric dipole components in Debye
(What's a Debye? See section VII.A.3)
  x y z Total
  0.930 -0.156 1.616 1.871
CHELPG        
AIM        
ESP        


Electric Quadrupole moment
Quadrupole components in D Å
Primitive
 xyz
x -17.722 -1.444 3.865
y -1.444 -27.806 -0.077
z 3.865 -0.077 -22.177
Traceless
 xyz
x 7.270 -1.444 3.865
y -1.444 -7.857 -0.077
z 3.865 -0.077 0.588
Polar
3z2-r21.175
x2-y210.085
xy-1.444
xz3.865
yz-0.077


Polarizabilities
Components of the polarizability tensor.
Units are Å3 (Angstrom cubed)
Change units.
  x y z
x 3.918 -0.117 0.307
y -0.117 3.213 -0.011
z 0.307 -0.011 1.366


<r2> (average value of r2) Å2
<r2> 85.278
(<r2>)1/2 9.235