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

using model chemistry: mPW1PW91/3-21G

19 10 17 12 22

States and conformations

State Conformation minimum conformation conformer description state description
1 1 yes CS 1A
Energy calculated at mPW1PW91/3-21G
 hartrees
Energy at 0K-302.520895
Energy at 298.15K-302.526585
HF Energy-302.520895
Nuclear repulsion energy178.522377
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 mPW1PW91/3-21G
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' 3553 3391 37.63      
2 A' 3461 3304 40.61      
3 A' 3054 2916 19.36      
4 A' 1794 1712 167.33      
5 A' 1555 1485 14.94      
6 A' 1495 1427 46.32      
7 A' 1397 1334 113.83      
8 A' 1329 1269 39.94      
9 A' 1146 1094 185.31      
10 A' 1072 1023 147.19      
11 A' 856 817 45.24      
12 A' 647 617 17.54      
13 A' 469 447 33.09      
14 A' 271 259 10.60      
15 A" 3079 2939 21.83      
16 A" 1244 1187 2.46      
17 A" 1076 1027 2.39      
18 A" 672 642 180.53      
19 A" 525 502 9.95      
20 A" 372 355 97.25      
21 A" 101 96 13.66      

Unscaled Zero Point Vibrational Energy (zpe) 14583.1 cm-1
Scaled (by 0.9546) Zero Point Vibrational Energy (zpe) 13921.0 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 mPW1PW91/3-21G
ABC
0.34941 0.13524 0.09931

See section I.F.4 to change rotational constant units
Geometric Data calculated at mPW1PW91/3-21G

Point Group is Cs

Cartesians (Å)
Atom x (Å) y (Å) z (Å)
C1 -0.628 -0.856 0.000
C2 0.000 0.515 0.000
O3 -0.925 1.508 0.000
O4 1.213 0.697 0.000
O5 0.403 -1.849 0.000
H6 -1.274 -0.934 0.884
H7 -1.274 -0.934 -0.884
H8 1.258 -1.335 0.000
H9 -0.471 2.391 0.000

Atom - Atom Distances (Å)
  C1 C2 O3 O4 O5 H6 H7 H8 H9
C11.50772.38242.40881.43211.09771.09771.94563.2503
C21.50771.35741.22682.39832.12212.12212.23691.9341
O32.38241.35742.28693.61062.62042.62043.58440.9928
O42.40881.22682.28692.67223.10283.10282.03282.3884
O51.43212.39833.61062.67222.10532.10530.99704.3292
H61.09772.12212.62043.10282.10531.76862.71113.5327
H71.09772.12212.62043.10282.10531.76862.71113.5327
H81.94562.23693.58442.03280.99702.71112.71114.1073
H93.25031.93410.99282.38844.32923.53273.53274.1073

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 112.406 C1 C2 O4 123.171
C1 O5 H8 105.029 C2 C1 O5 109.304
C2 C1 H6 108.048 C2 C1 H7 108.048
C2 O3 H9 109.798 O3 C2 O4 124.422
O5 C1 H6 111.975 O5 C1 H7 111.975
H6 C1 H7 107.335
Electronic energy levels
Charges, Dipole, Quadrupole and Polarizability
Charges from optimized geometry at mPW1PW91/3-21G Charges (e)
Number Element Mulliken CHELPG AIM ESP
1 C -0.214      
2 C 0.598      
3 O -0.573      
4 O -0.491      
5 O -0.584      
6 H 0.252      
7 H 0.252      
8 H 0.367      
9 H 0.393      


Electric dipole moments
Electric dipole components in Debye
(What's a Debye? See section VII.A.3)
  x y z Total
  -1.069 2.593 0.000 2.805
CHELPG        
AIM        
ESP        


Electric Quadrupole moment
Quadrupole components in D Å
Primitive
 xyz
x -30.362 -0.134 0.000
y -0.134 -28.544 0.000
z 0.000 0.000 -27.782
Traceless
 xyz
x -2.199 -0.134 0.000
y -0.134 0.528 0.000
z 0.000 0.000 1.671
Polar
3z2-r23.341
x2-y2-1.818
xy-0.134
xz0.000
yz0.000


Polarizabilities
Components of the polarizability tensor.
Units are Å3 (Angstrom cubed)
Change units.
  x y z
x 4.752 -0.159 0.000
y -0.159 4.649 0.000
z 0.000 0.000 2.333


<r2> (average value of r2) Å2
<r2> 111.618
(<r2>)1/2 10.565