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

using model chemistry: M06-2X/6-31G*

19 10 17 12 22

States and conformations

State Conformation minimum conformation conformer description state description
1 1 yes C1 1A
Energy calculated at M06-2X/6-31G*
 hartrees
Energy at 0K-266.060374
Energy at 298.15K-266.064609
HF Energy-266.060374
Nuclear repulsion energy118.393891
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 M06-2X/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 3917 3710 78.46      
2 A 3800 3598 28.66      
3 A 3743 3544 77.89      
4 A 3210 3040 8.98      
5 A 1915 1813 338.12      
6 A 1717 1626 83.21      
7 A 1431 1355 12.46      
8 A 1317 1247 8.81      
9 A 1170 1108 287.19      
10 A 1093 1035 1.36      
11 A 714 676 173.04      
12 A 645 611 53.28      
13 A 515 487 265.94      
14 A 241 228 126.02      
15 A 232 219 96.20      
16 A 175 166 0.75      
17 A 134 127 14.90      
18 A 121 114 9.08      

Unscaled Zero Point Vibrational Energy (zpe) 13043.4 cm-1
Scaled (by 0.947) Zero Point Vibrational Energy (zpe) 12352.1 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 M06-2X/6-31G*
ABC
0.65514 0.10170 0.08871

See section I.F.4 to change rotational constant units
Geometric Data calculated at M06-2X/6-31G*

Point Group is C1

Cartesians (Å)
Atom x (Å) y (Å) z (Å)
H1 1.822 0.511 -0.172
O2 2.301 -0.327 -0.090
O3 -0.228 0.947 0.008
H4 2.741 -0.272 0.768
H5 -0.968 1.581 0.009
C6 -0.769 -0.292 -0.000
O7 -1.949 -0.499 0.008
H8 0.033 -1.039 -0.015

Atom - Atom Distances (Å)
  H1 O2 O3 H4 H5 C6 O7 H8
H10.96832.10381.52972.99402.71833.90822.3728
O20.96832.83330.96583.78623.07144.25412.3784
O32.10382.83333.29800.97431.35222.24832.0040
H41.52970.96583.29804.21473.59314.75622.9217
H52.99403.78620.97434.21471.88332.30012.8052
C62.71833.07141.35223.59311.88331.19781.0965
O73.90824.25412.24834.75622.30011.19782.0540
H82.37282.37842.00402.92172.80521.09652.0540

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 104.536 H1 O3 H5 151.083
H1 O3 C6 101.503 O2 H1 O3 130.828
O3 C6 O7 123.580 O3 C6 H8 109.398
H5 O3 C6 106.970 O7 C6 H8 127.022
Electronic energy levels
Charges, Dipole, Quadrupole and Polarizability
Charges from optimized geometry at M06-2X/6-31G* Charges (e)
Number Element Mulliken CHELPG AIM ESP
1 H 0.430      
2 O -0.832      
3 O -0.602      
4 H 0.408      
5 H 0.435      
6 C 0.381      
7 O -0.427      
8 H 0.206      


Electric dipole moments
Electric dipole components in Debye
(What's a Debye? See section VII.A.3)
  x y z Total
  0.990 2.338 1.376 2.888
CHELPG        
AIM        
ESP        


Electric Quadrupole moment
Quadrupole components in D Å
Primitive
 xyz
x -28.160 -1.608 4.381
y -1.608 -20.682 -0.681
z 4.381 -0.681 -22.277
Traceless
 xyz
x -6.680 -1.608 4.381
y -1.608 4.537 -0.681
z 4.381 -0.681 2.143
Polar
3z2-r24.286
x2-y2-7.478
xy-1.608
xz4.381
yz-0.681


Polarizabilities
Components of the polarizability tensor.
Units are Å3 (Angstrom cubed)
Change units.
  x y z
x 4.189 0.020 0.229
y 0.020 3.445 -0.021
z 0.229 -0.021 2.080


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