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All results from a given calculation for H2OH2O (water dimer)

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 CS 1A'
Energy calculated at HF/3-21G
 hartrees
Energy at 0K-151.189404
Energy at 298.15K-151.192649
HF Energy-151.189404
Counterpoise corrected energy-75.585943
CP Energy at 298.15K-75.588934
Counterpoise optimized geometry corrected energy 
CP opt. Energy at 298.15K 
Nuclear repulsion energy37.230951
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' 3909 3540 53.71      
2 A' 3833 3471 4.95      
3 A' 3729 3377 287.25      
4 A' 1854 1679 99.41      
5 A' 1793 1623 100.45      
6 A' 490 444 120.32      
7 A' 245 222 99.55      
8 A' 201 182 356.74      
9 A" 3962 3588 45.70      
10 A" 832 753 273.06      
11 A" 205 185 7.62      
12 A" 151 137 232.46      

Unscaled Zero Point Vibrational Energy (zpe) 10601.5 cm-1
Scaled (by 0.9056) Zero Point Vibrational Energy (zpe) 9600.7 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
7.15484 0.23108 0.23066

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)
H1 0.045 0.490 0.000
O2 -0.001 1.462 0.000
O3 -0.001 -1.335 0.000
H4 0.903 1.802 0.000
H5 -0.464 -1.655 0.786
H6 -0.464 -1.655 -0.786

Atom - Atom Distances (Å)
  H1 O2 O3 H4 H5 H6
H10.97321.82531.56732.34052.3405
O20.97322.79680.96573.24783.2478
O31.82532.79683.26450.96650.9665
H41.56730.96573.26453.79963.7996
H52.34053.24780.96653.79961.5717
H62.34053.24780.96653.79961.5717

picture of water dimer state 1 conformation 1
More geometry information
Calculated Bond Angles
atom1 atom2 atom3 angle atom1 atom2 atom3 angle
H1 O2 H4 107.869 H1 O3 H5 110.089
H1 O3 H6 110.089 O2 H1 O3 175.793
H5 O3 H6 108.790
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 H 0.393      
2 O -0.802      
3 O -0.724      
4 H 0.345      
5 H 0.394      
6 H 0.394      


Electric dipole moments
Electric dipole components in Debye
(What's a Debye? See section VII.A.3)
  x y z Total
  -0.115 -3.511 0.000 3.513
CHELPG        
AIM        
ESP        


Electric Quadrupole moment
Quadrupole components in D Å
Primitive
 xyz
x -10.814 6.887 0.000
y 6.887 -11.264 0.000
z 0.000 0.000 -10.642
Traceless
 xyz
x 0.139 6.887 0.000
y 6.887 -0.536 0.000
z 0.000 0.000 0.398
Polar
3z2-r20.795
x2-y20.450
xy6.887
xz0.000
yz0.000


Polarizabilities
Components of the polarizability tensor.
Units are Å3 (Angstrom cubed)
Change units.
  x y z
x 1.080 0.489 0.000
y 0.489 1.393 0.000
z 0.000 0.000 1.071


<r2> (average value of r2) Å2
<r2> 49.614
(<r2>)1/2 7.044