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All results from a given calculation for C4H6O2 (2-Propenoic acid, methyl ester)

using model chemistry: PBEPBE/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 PBEPBE/6-31G**
 hartrees
Energy at 0K-306.111040
Energy at 298.15K-306.117475
Nuclear repulsion energy226.005955
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 PBEPBE/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 3200 3156 2.90      
2 A 3136 3093 4.67      
3 A 3113 3071 15.19      
4 A 3100 3058 3.66      
5 A 3072 3029 18.78      
6 A 2993 2952 29.28      
7 A 1754 1730 140.21      
8 A 1659 1636 21.74      
9 A 1458 1438 6.95      
10 A 1441 1421 7.06      
11 A 1424 1405 22.69      
12 A 1390 1371 54.42      
13 A 1291 1273 59.21      
14 A 1183 1167 293.00      
15 A 1162 1146 33.39      
16 A 1135 1119 0.19      
17 A 1046 1032 3.25      
18 A 1009 995 15.01      
19 A 995 982 23.11      
20 A 947 934 18.19      
21 A 845 834 8.85      
22 A 787 777 21.79      
23 A 647 638 4.15      
24 A 515 508 0.12      
25 A 463 456 1.18      
26 A 329 325 16.22      
27 A 214 211 3.41      
28 A 203 200 3.69      
29 A 109 107 0.08      
30 A 100 99 3.07      

Unscaled Zero Point Vibrational Energy (zpe) 20359.2 cm-1
Scaled (by 0.9863) Zero Point Vibrational Energy (zpe) 20080.3 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 PBEPBE/6-31G**
ABC
0.33585 0.07701 0.06340

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

Point Group is C1

Cartesians (Å)
Atom x (Å) y (Å) z (Å)
H1 -3.049 -0.890 -0.003
H2 -2.414 0.552 -0.892
H3 -2.417 0.548 0.895
C4 -2.303 -0.084 -0.000
O5 -1.021 -0.741 0.000
O6 -0.066 1.336 -0.000
C7 0.045 0.116 0.000
H8 1.244 -1.741 -0.000
C9 1.319 -0.650 -0.000
H10 3.449 -0.549 -0.000
H11 2.524 1.085 0.000
C12 2.499 -0.009 -0.000

Atom - Atom Distances (Å)
  H1 H2 H3 C4 O5 O6 C7 H8 C9 H10 H11 C12
H11.80901.80891.09762.03363.72193.25284.37634.37396.50625.91205.6169
H21.80901.78671.10142.10062.63192.65224.40924.02226.03195.04635.0250
H31.80891.78671.10142.10062.63622.65454.40944.02366.03385.04945.0272
C41.09761.10141.10141.44142.65032.35673.91533.66605.77074.96664.8027
O52.03362.10062.10061.44142.28621.36732.47542.34094.47323.98713.5946
O63.72192.63192.63622.65032.28621.22503.34432.42073.98772.60142.8955
C73.25282.65222.65452.35671.36731.22502.21071.48643.46812.66162.4571
H84.37634.40924.40943.91532.47543.34432.21071.09402.50663.10272.1393
C94.37394.02224.02363.66602.34092.42071.48641.09402.13232.11251.3430
H106.50626.03196.03385.77074.47323.98773.46812.50662.13231.87761.0927
H115.91205.04635.04944.96663.98712.60142.66163.10272.11251.87761.0942
C125.61695.02505.02724.80273.59462.89552.45712.13931.34301.09271.0942

picture of 2-Propenoic acid, methyl ester state 1 conformation 1
More geometry information
Calculated Bond Angles
atom1 atom2 atom3 angle atom1 atom2 atom3 angle
H1 C4 H2 110.709 H1 C4 H3 110.697
H1 C4 O5 105.645 H2 C4 H3 108.415
H2 C4 O5 110.692 H3 C4 O5 110.688
C4 O5 C7 114.051 O5 C7 O6 123.653
O5 C7 C9 110.165 O6 C7 C9 126.182
C7 C9 H8 117.095 C7 C9 C12 120.469
H8 C9 C12 122.436 C9 C12 H10 121.864
C9 C12 H11 119.824 H10 C12 H11 118.312
Electronic energy levels
Charges, Dipole, Quadrupole and Polarizability
Charges from optimized geometry at PBEPBE/6-31G** Charges (e)
Number Element Mulliken CHELPG AIM ESP
1 H 0.135      
2 H 0.146      
3 H 0.146      
4 C -0.151      
5 O -0.423      
6 O -0.456      
7 C 0.543      
8 H 0.120      
9 C -0.101      
10 H 0.125      
11 H 0.145      
12 C -0.229      


Electric dipole moments
Electric dipole components in Debye
(What's a Debye? See section VII.A.3)
  x y z Total
  -0.145 -1.423 -0.000 1.430
CHELPG        
AIM        
ESP        


Electric Quadrupole moment
Quadrupole components in D Å
Primitive
 xyz
x -26.034 -0.727 0.001
y -0.727 -37.801 0.000
z 0.001 0.000 -35.645
Traceless
 xyz
x 10.689 -0.727 0.001
y -0.727 -6.961 0.000
z 0.001 0.000 -3.728
Polar
3z2-r2-7.456
x2-y211.767
xy-0.727
xz0.001
yz0.000


Polarizabilities
Components of the polarizability tensor.
Units are Å3 (Angstrom cubed)
Change units.
  x y z
x 11.314 0.463 -0.000
y 0.463 6.972 0.000
z -0.000 0.000 3.925


<r2> (average value of r2) Å2
<r2> 178.427
(<r2>)1/2 13.358