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All results from a given calculation for CH2FCH2OH (2-fluoroethanol)

using model chemistry: HF/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 HF/6-31G*
 hartrees
Energy at 0K-252.925157
Energy at 298.15K 
HF Energy-252.925157
Nuclear repulsion energy132.284741
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 HF/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 4099 3683 58.09 51.37 0.30 0.46
2 A 3313 2977 59.95 50.44 0.73 0.84
3 A 3283 2950 53.19 85.74 0.29 0.45
4 A 3255 2924 27.72 100.97 0.21 0.35
5 A 3203 2878 54.74 97.86 0.22 0.37
6 A 1665 1496 1.55 4.78 0.75 0.86
7 A 1654 1486 1.27 13.22 0.75 0.86
8 A 1593 1431 42.13 2.75 0.44 0.61
9 A 1556 1398 35.60 2.01 0.75 0.86
10 A 1515 1361 14.73 10.61 0.75 0.86
11 A 1389 1248 11.18 10.87 0.70 0.83
12 A 1332 1197 24.13 5.86 0.73 0.84
13 A 1249 1122 26.86 4.04 0.42 0.59
14 A 1213 1090 89.03 4.91 0.75 0.86
15 A 1170 1051 78.13 2.09 0.72 0.84
16 A 981 882 14.26 6.30 0.34 0.50
17 A 948 851 42.84 6.02 0.32 0.49
18 A 564 507 14.91 0.93 0.74 0.85
19 A 427 384 145.51 2.36 0.74 0.85
20 A 337 302 28.10 0.43 0.59 0.74
21 A 170 153 12.62 0.04 0.47 0.64

Unscaled Zero Point Vibrational Energy (zpe) 17457.3 cm-1
Scaled (by 0.8985) Zero Point Vibrational Energy (zpe) 15685.4 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 HF/6-31G*
ABC
0.53356 0.18791 0.15579

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

Point Group is C1

Cartesians (Å)
Atom x (Å) y (Å) z (Å)
C1 0.684 0.577 0.276
C2 -0.722 0.556 -0.274
O3 1.426 -0.510 -0.190
F4 -1.331 -0.602 0.157
H5 1.192 1.475 -0.053
H6 0.646 0.590 1.363
H7 -1.306 1.396 0.081
H8 -0.717 0.542 -1.355
H9 0.977 -1.308 0.055

Atom - Atom Distances (Å)
  C1 C2 O3 F4 H5 H6 H7 H8 H9
C11.50931.39682.33761.08271.08772.16042.15001.9207
C21.50932.39971.37782.13412.13341.08251.08142.5436
O31.39682.39972.78072.00352.05703.34242.65630.9483
F42.33761.37782.78073.27462.60471.99951.99312.4157
H51.08272.13412.00353.27461.75682.50272.49152.7934
H61.08772.13342.05702.60471.75682.47083.04092.3285
H72.16041.08253.34241.99952.50272.47081.77143.5389
H82.15001.08142.65631.99312.49153.04091.77142.8774
H91.92072.54360.94832.41572.79342.32853.53892.8774

picture of 2-fluoroethanol state 1 conformation 1
More geometry information
Calculated Bond Angles
atom1 atom2 atom3 angle atom1 atom2 atom3 angle
C1 C2 F4 108.037 C1 C2 H7 111.875
C1 C2 H8 111.096 C1 O3 H9 108.461
C2 C1 O3 111.264 C2 C1 H5 109.742
C2 C1 H6 109.386 O3 C1 H5 107.124
O3 C1 H6 111.162
Electronic energy levels
Charges, Dipole, Quadrupole and Polarizability
Charges from optimized geometry at HF/6-31G* Charges (e)
Number Element Mulliken CHELPG AIM ESP
1 C -0.028      
2 C 0.082      
3 O -0.737      
4 F -0.420      
5 H 0.172      
6 H 0.158      
7 H 0.155      
8 H 0.168      
9 H 0.450      


Electric dipole moments
Electric dipole components in Debye
(What's a Debye? See section VII.A.3)
  x y z Total
  -0.665 1.450 0.326 1.628
CHELPG        
AIM        
ESP        


Electric Quadrupole moment
Quadrupole components in D Å
Primitive
 xyz
x -29.264 -1.107 1.723
y -1.107 -20.462 -0.558
z 1.723 -0.558 -23.317
Traceless
 xyz
x -7.375 -1.107 1.723
y -1.107 5.829 -0.558
z 1.723 -0.558 1.546
Polar
3z2-r23.091
x2-y2-8.803
xy-1.107
xz1.723
yz-0.558


Polarizabilities
Components of the polarizability tensor.
Units are Å3 (Angstrom cubed)
Change units.
  x y z
x 3.553 -0.067 -0.036
y -0.067 3.839 0.019
z -0.036 0.019 3.452


<r2> (average value of r2) Å2
<r2> 79.171
(<r2>)1/2 8.898