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All results from a given calculation for HOCH2COOH (Hydroxyacetic acid)

using model chemistry: HF/6-311G*

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/6-311G*
 hartrees
Energy at 0K-302.733260
Energy at 298.15K 
HF Energy-302.733260
Nuclear repulsion energy182.082984
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/6-311G*
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' 4128 3733 73.94      
2 A' 4120 3726 97.92      
3 A' 3212 2905 34.53      
4 A' 2013 1820 429.27      
5 A' 1641 1484 7.90      
6 A' 1628 1473 2.69      
7 A' 1475 1334 129.38      
8 A' 1411 1276 90.35      
9 A' 1324 1198 187.86      
10 A' 1242 1123 236.28      
11 A' 936 846 41.85      
12 A' 713 645 32.33      
13 A' 512 463 26.98      
14 A' 305 276 7.91      
15 A" 3243 2933 34.10      
16 A" 1376 1244 0.06      
17 A" 1151 1041 3.19      
18 A" 721 652 194.23      
19 A" 554 501 12.59      
20 A" 249 226 95.44      
21 A" 47i 42i 46.41      

Unscaled Zero Point Vibrational Energy (zpe) 15952.9 cm-1
Scaled (by 0.9044) Zero Point Vibrational Energy (zpe) 14427.8 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/6-311G*
ABC
0.36860 0.13732 0.10192

See section I.F.4 to change rotational constant units
Geometric Data calculated at HF/6-311G*

Point Group is Cs

Cartesians (Å)
Atom x (Å) y (Å) z (Å)
C1 -0.577 -0.867 0.000
C2 0.000 0.525 0.000
O3 -0.934 1.458 0.000
O4 1.160 0.758 0.000
O5 0.418 -1.830 0.000
H6 -1.211 -0.968 0.875
H7 -1.211 -0.968 -0.875
H8 1.264 -1.414 0.000
H9 -0.529 2.311 0.000

Atom - Atom Distances (Å)
  C1 C2 O3 O4 O5 H6 H7 H8 H9
C11.50692.35222.37891.38411.08491.08491.92023.1785
C21.50691.32021.18322.39122.11202.11202.31451.8627
O32.35221.32022.20793.55452.59372.59373.61640.9445
O42.37891.18322.20792.69223.06043.06042.17492.2941
O51.38412.39123.55452.69222.03942.03940.94244.2473
H61.08492.11202.59373.06042.03941.74982.66203.4616
H71.08492.11202.59373.06042.03941.74982.66203.4616
H81.92022.31453.61642.17490.94242.66202.66204.1340
H93.17851.86270.94452.29414.24733.46163.46164.1340

picture of Hydroxyacetic acid state 1 conformation 1
More geometry information
Calculated Bond Angles
atom1 atom2 atom3 angle atom1 atom2 atom3 angle
C1 C2 O3 112.445 C1 C2 O4 123.891
C1 O5 H8 109.792 C2 C1 O5 111.538
C2 C1 H6 108.039 C2 C1 H7 108.039
C2 O3 H9 109.549 O3 C2 O4 123.664
O5 C1 H6 110.791 O5 C1 H7 110.791
H6 C1 H7 107.489
Electronic energy levels
Charges, Dipole, Quadrupole and Polarizability
Charges from optimized geometry at HF/6-311G* Charges (e)
Number Element Mulliken CHELPG AIM ESP
1 C -0.118      
2 C 0.500      
3 O -0.604      
4 O -0.460      
5 O -0.673      
6 H 0.231      
7 H 0.231      
8 H 0.445      
9 H 0.448      


Electric dipole moments
Electric dipole components in Debye
(What's a Debye? See section VII.A.3)
  x y z Total
  -1.285 2.029 0.000 2.401
CHELPG        
AIM        
ESP        


Electric Quadrupole moment
Quadrupole components in D Å
Primitive
 xyz
x -30.796 -0.842 0.000
y -0.842 -29.197 0.000
z 0.000 0.000 -27.956
Traceless
 xyz
x -2.219 -0.842 0.000
y -0.842 0.179 0.000
z 0.000 0.000 2.040
Polar
3z2-r24.081
x2-y2-1.599
xy-0.842
xz0.000
yz0.000


Polarizabilities
Components of the polarizability tensor.
Units are Å3 (Angstrom cubed)
Change units.
  x y z
x 4.768 -0.016 0.000
y -0.016 4.381 0.000
z 0.000 0.000 2.912


<r2> (average value of r2) Å2
<r2> 109.549
(<r2>)1/2 10.467