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All results from a given calculation for NH2CH2CH2COOH (β–alanine)

using model chemistry: B3LYP/aug-cc-pVDZ

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States and conformations

State Conformation minimum conformation conformer description state description
1 1 yes C1 1A
Energy calculated at B3LYP/aug-cc-pVDZ
 hartrees
Energy at 0K-323.801658
Energy at 298.15K-323.811472
Nuclear repulsion energy246.501816
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 B3LYP/aug-cc-pVDZ
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 3575 3469 8.03      
2 A 3490 3386 1.09      
3 A 3244 3148 738.49      
4 A 3123 3030 7.45      
5 A 3086 2994 19.82      
6 A 3031 2941 7.38      
7 A 3019 2929 58.00      
8 A 1812 1759 430.08      
9 A 1636 1587 28.00      
10 A 1496 1452 19.24      
11 A 1481 1437 211.02      
12 A 1442 1399 8.18      
13 A 1400 1359 11.25      
14 A 1353 1313 9.70      
15 A 1300 1261 3.51      
16 A 1281 1243 18.28      
17 A 1232 1196 78.70      
18 A 1139 1105 8.51      
19 A 1071 1039 7.92      
20 A 1013 983 8.43      
21 A 982 953 82.26      
22 A 949 921 10.57      
23 A 907 880 24.00      
24 A 857 832 49.61      
25 A 809 785 16.73      
26 A 690 669 9.27      
27 A 570 553 2.58      
28 A 488 474 9.16      
29 A 404 392 11.10      
30 A 329 320 6.88      
31 A 277 269 8.99      
32 A 198 192 5.52      
33 A 87 85 0.68      

Unscaled Zero Point Vibrational Energy (zpe) 23883.8 cm-1
Scaled (by 0.9704) Zero Point Vibrational Energy (zpe) 23176.8 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 B3LYP/aug-cc-pVDZ
ABC
0.23828 0.08305 0.06567

See section I.F.4 to change rotational constant units
Geometric Data calculated at B3LYP/aug-cc-pVDZ

Point Group is C1

Cartesians (Å)
Atom x (Å) y (Å) z (Å)
N1 1.917 0.581 0.135
C2 1.369 -0.701 -0.360
C3 0.013 -0.996 0.295
C4 -1.087 0.034 0.025
O5 -0.688 1.319 -0.045
O6 -2.250 -0.275 -0.095
H7 2.689 0.902 -0.442
H8 2.273 0.484 1.084
H9 2.049 -1.551 -0.185
H10 1.240 -0.605 -1.447
H11 -0.367 -1.967 -0.041
H12 0.136 -1.063 1.389
H13 0.300 1.353 0.055

Atom - Atom Distances (Å)
  N1 C2 C3 C4 O5 O6 H7 H8 H9 H10 H11 H12 H13
N11.47902.47673.05472.71344.26021.01641.01822.15932.08923.42622.72831.7935
C21.47901.53492.59292.90073.65452.07802.07501.10191.09862.17292.17062.3527
C32.47671.53491.53092.44252.40733.36242.81402.16432.16651.09611.10282.3784
C43.05472.59291.53091.34701.21003.90243.55133.52012.82702.12812.13521.9139
O52.71342.90072.44251.34702.23263.42593.27753.96833.06343.30192.90000.9938
O64.26023.65452.40731.21002.23265.08964.73584.48573.75802.53242.91863.0295
H71.01642.07803.36243.90243.42595.08961.63622.54782.31914.21133.70562.4815
H81.01822.07502.81403.55133.27754.73581.63622.40832.94213.77402.65552.3891
H92.15931.10192.16433.52013.96834.48572.54782.40831.77202.45632.52523.3983
H102.08921.09862.16652.82703.06343.75802.31912.94211.77202.53353.07762.6405
H113.42622.17291.09612.12813.30192.53244.21133.77402.45632.53351.76503.3880
H122.72832.17061.10282.13522.90002.91863.70562.65552.52523.07761.76502.7647
H131.79352.35272.37841.91390.99383.02952.48152.38913.39832.64053.38802.7647

picture of β–alanine state 1 conformation 1
More geometry information
Calculated Bond Angles
atom1 atom2 atom3 angle atom1 atom2 atom3 angle
N1 C2 C3 110.509 N1 C2 H9 112.762
N1 C2 H10 107.375 C2 N1 H7 111.412
C2 N1 H8 111.042 C2 C3 C4 115.500
C2 C3 H11 110.245 C2 C3 H12 109.668
C3 C2 H9 109.231 C3 C2 H10 109.590
C3 C4 O5 115.995 C3 C4 O6 122.436
C4 C3 H11 107.042 C4 C3 H12 107.210
C4 O5 H13 108.765 O5 C4 O6 121.556
H7 N1 H8 107.057 H9 C2 H10 107.274
H11 C3 H12 106.777
Electronic energy levels
Charges, Dipole, Quadrupole and Polarizability
Charges from optimized geometry at B3LYP/aug-cc-pVDZ Charges (e)
Number Element Mulliken CHELPG AIM ESP
1 N -0.328      
2 C 1.151      
3 C 0.777      
4 C 0.599      
5 O -0.445      
6 O -0.518      
7 H -0.049      
8 H 0.001      
9 H -0.343      
10 H -0.483      
11 H -0.317      
12 H -0.286      
13 H 0.242      


Electric dipole moments
Electric dipole components in Debye
(What's a Debye? See section VII.A.3)
  x y z Total
  6.520 -1.290 0.565 6.670
CHELPG        
AIM        
ESP        


Electric Quadrupole moment
Quadrupole components in D Å
Primitive
 xyz
x -40.595 1.518 -0.418
y 1.518 -38.124 0.030
z -0.418 0.030 -34.223
Traceless
 xyz
x -4.422 1.518 -0.418
y 1.518 -0.714 0.030
z -0.418 0.030 5.136
Polar
3z2-r210.272
x2-y2-2.471
xy1.518
xz-0.418
yz0.030


Polarizabilities
Components of the polarizability tensor.
Units are Å3 (Angstrom cubed)
Change units.
  x y z
x 9.933 0.335 0.122
y 0.335 8.273 -0.015
z 0.122 -0.015 6.639


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