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All results from a given calculation for H2OHCOOH (Water formic acid dimer 1)

using model chemistry: MP2/6-31+G**

19 10 17 12 22

States and conformations

State Conformation minimum conformation conformer description state description
1 1 yes C1 1A
Energy calculated at MP2/6-31+G**
 hartrees
Energy at 0K-265.515304
Energy at 298.15K-265.518931
HF Energy-264.808689
Counterpoise corrected energy-265.513776
CP Energy at 298.15K-265.517316
Counterpoise optimized geometry corrected energy 
CP opt. Energy at 298.15K 
Nuclear repulsion energy116.631692
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 MP2/6-31+G**
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 3996 3759 106.18      
2 A 3844 3616 21.30      
3 A 3786 3561 80.32      
4 A 3224 3032 4.45      
5 A 1798 1691 319.47      
6 A 1626 1530 132.66      
7 A 1433 1348 7.04      
8 A 1282 1205 8.25      
9 A 1117 1051 306.81      
10 A 1070 1006 6.06      
11 A 663 624 172.73      
12 A 619 583 37.03      
13 A 343 323 122.21      
14 A 267 251 138.54      
15 A 142 134 5.43      
16 A 110 103 182.42      
17 A 90 85 21.14      
18 A 47 44 6.82      

Unscaled Zero Point Vibrational Energy (zpe) 12728.7 cm-1
Scaled (by 0.9406) Zero Point Vibrational Energy (zpe) 11972.6 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 MP2/6-31+G**
ABC
0.65261 0.09701 0.08466

See section I.F.4 to change rotational constant units
Geometric Data calculated at MP2/6-31+G**

Point Group is C1

Cartesians (Å)
Atom x (Å) y (Å) z (Å)
H1 1.919 0.535 -0.056
O2 2.322 -0.343 -0.052
O3 -0.250 0.957 0.031
H4 3.255 -0.210 0.146
H5 -0.979 1.585 -0.119
C6 -0.803 -0.289 0.069
O7 -1.992 -0.507 -0.055
H8 -0.020 -1.032 0.223

Atom - Atom Distances (Å)
  H1 O2 O3 H4 H5 C6 O7 H8
H10.96592.21131.54313.08292.84664.04732.5085
O20.96592.88300.96303.82323.12774.31692.4568
O32.21132.88303.69610.97341.36432.27762.0115
H41.54310.96303.69614.60644.05945.25913.3776
H53.08293.82320.97344.60641.89142.32522.8074
C62.84663.12771.36434.05941.89141.21511.0898
O74.04734.31692.27765.25912.32521.21512.0588
H82.50852.45682.01153.37762.80741.08982.0588

picture of Water formic acid dimer 1 state 1 conformation 1
More geometry information
Calculated Bond Angles
atom1 atom2 atom3 angle atom1 atom2 atom3 angle
H1 O2 H4 106.249 H1 O3 H5 148.410
H1 O3 C6 102.949 O2 H1 O3 125.639
O3 C6 O7 123.915 O3 C6 H8 109.597
H5 O3 C6 106.817 O7 C6 H8 126.488
Electronic energy levels
Charges, Dipole, Quadrupole and Polarizability
Charges from optimized geometry at MP2/6-31+G** Charges (e)
Number Element Mulliken CHELPG AIM ESP
1 H 0.394      
2 O -0.764      
3 O -0.606      
4 H 0.381      
5 H 0.406      
6 C 0.552      
7 O -0.550      
8 H 0.187      


Electric dipole moments
Electric dipole components in Debye
(What's a Debye? See section VII.A.3)
  x y z Total
  2.543 2.556 0.486 3.638
CHELPG        
AIM        
ESP        


Electric Quadrupole moment
Quadrupole components in D Å
Primitive
 xyz
x -23.900 -1.426 1.228
y -1.426 -21.425 -0.967
z 1.228 -0.967 -24.655
Traceless
 xyz
x -0.860 -1.426 1.228
y -1.426 2.852 -0.967
z 1.228 -0.967 -1.992
Polar
3z2-r2-3.985
x2-y2-2.475
xy-1.426
xz1.228
yz-0.967


Polarizabilities
Components of the polarizability tensor.
Units are Å3 (Angstrom cubed)
Change units.
  x y z
x 4.065 -0.149 0.191
y -0.149 2.880 -0.261
z 0.191 -0.261 5.197


<r2> (average value of r2) Å2
<r2> 0.000
(<r2>)1/2 0.000