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

using model chemistry: HF/6-31G

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/6-31G
 hartrees
Energy at 0K-302.513708
Energy at 298.15K-302.519283
HF Energy-302.513708
Nuclear repulsion energy179.735065
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/6-31G
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' 3990 3603 116.77      
2 A' 3989 3602 83.77      
3 A' 3243 2928 12.97      
4 A' 1914 1728 332.60      
5 A' 1660 1499 15.58      
6 A' 1591 1437 7.60      
7 A' 1466 1324 117.49      
8 A' 1394 1258 77.89      
9 A' 1260 1138 164.87      
10 A' 1172 1058 241.43      
11 A' 935 844 45.93      
12 A' 694 626 31.18      
13 A' 503 454 33.36      
14 A' 298 269 8.44      
15 A" 3288 2968 14.26      
16 A" 1364 1232 0.05      
17 A" 1154 1042 3.67      
18 A" 693 626 265.99      
19 A" 558 504 24.07      
20 A" 248 223 130.90      
21 A" 22 20 67.81      

Unscaled Zero Point Vibrational Energy (zpe) 15717.3 cm-1
Scaled (by 0.9029) Zero Point Vibrational Energy (zpe) 14191.2 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/6-31G
ABC
0.35789 0.13470 0.09965

See section I.F.4 to change rotational constant units
Geometric Data calculated at HF/6-31G

Point Group is Cs

Cartesians (Å)
Atom x (Å) y (Å) z (Å)
C1 -0.597 -0.854 0.000
C2 0.000 0.520 0.000
O3 -0.933 1.485 0.000
O4 1.190 0.746 0.000
O5 0.407 -1.850 0.000
H6 -1.223 -0.962 0.875
H7 -1.223 -0.962 -0.875
H8 1.292 -1.494 0.000
H9 -0.586 2.374 0.000

Atom - Atom Distances (Å)
  C1 C2 O3 O4 O5 H6 H7 H8 H9
C11.49742.36272.39841.41401.08091.08091.99433.2279
C21.49741.34241.21182.40412.11042.11042.39241.9447
O32.36271.34242.24823.59382.61432.61433.71790.9547
O42.39841.21182.24822.71133.08283.08282.24192.4094
O51.41402.40413.59382.71132.05172.05170.95414.3389
H61.08092.11042.61433.08282.05171.74912.71533.5069
H71.08092.11042.61433.08282.05171.74912.71533.5069
H81.99432.39243.71792.24190.95412.71532.71534.2995
H93.22791.94470.95472.40944.33893.50693.50694.2995

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 112.497 C1 C2 O4 124.240
C1 O5 H8 113.306 C2 C1 O5 111.299
C2 C1 H6 108.804 C2 C1 H7 108.804
C2 O3 H9 114.636 O3 C2 O4 123.263
O5 C1 H6 109.927 O5 C1 H7 109.927
H6 C1 H7 108.007
Electronic energy levels
Charges, Dipole, Quadrupole and Polarizability
Charges from optimized geometry at HF/6-31G Charges (e)
Number Element Mulliken CHELPG AIM ESP
1 C 0.014      
2 C 0.691      
3 O -0.719      
4 O -0.555      
5 O -0.755      
6 H 0.217      
7 H 0.217      
8 H 0.440      
9 H 0.450      


Electric dipole moments
Electric dipole components in Debye
(What's a Debye? See section VII.A.3)
  x y z Total
  -1.455 2.246 0.000 2.676
CHELPG        
AIM        
ESP        


Electric Quadrupole moment
Quadrupole components in D Å
Primitive
 xyz
x -31.797 -0.971 0.000
y -0.971 -30.142 0.000
z 0.000 0.000 -28.236
Traceless
 xyz
x -2.608 -0.971 0.000
y -0.971 -0.126 0.000
z 0.000 0.000 2.734
Polar
3z2-r25.468
x2-y2-1.655
xy-0.971
xz0.000
yz0.000


Polarizabilities
Components of the polarizability tensor.
Units are Å3 (Angstrom cubed)
Change units.
  x y z
x 4.793 -0.106 0.000
y -0.106 4.128 0.000
z 0.000 0.000 2.445


<r2> (average value of r2) Å2
<r2> 112.240
(<r2>)1/2 10.594