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All results from a given calculation for CHClCCl2 (Trichloroethylene)

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 CS 1A'
Energy calculated at HF/6-31G**
 hartrees
Energy at 0K-1454.720948
Energy at 298.15K-1454.722307
Nuclear repulsion energy318.143295
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' 3423 3090 13.71      
2 A' 1842 1662 8.80      
3 A' 1410 1273 13.15      
4 A' 1044 942 98.51      
5 A' 916 827 113.64      
6 A' 686 619 15.35      
7 A' 421 380 0.02      
8 A' 302 273 0.47      
9 A' 189 171 1.19      
10 A" 958 864 27.75      
11 A" 536 484 4.22      
12 A" 230 208 1.40      

Unscaled Zero Point Vibrational Energy (zpe) 5977.7 cm-1
Scaled (by 0.9026) Zero Point Vibrational Energy (zpe) 5395.5 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
0.12975 0.05086 0.03654

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

Point Group is Cs

Cartesians (Å)
Atom x (Å) y (Å) z (Å)
C1 -1.023 -0.393 0.000
C2 0.000 0.433 0.000
H3 -2.026 -0.017 0.000
Cl4 -0.899 -2.105 0.000
Cl5 -0.268 2.139 0.000
Cl6 1.647 -0.047 0.000

Atom - Atom Distances (Å)
  C1 C2 H3 Cl4 Cl5 Cl6
C11.31461.07051.71682.64182.6924
C21.31462.07512.69231.72681.7154
H31.07052.07512.37232.78203.6728
Cl41.71682.69232.37234.29053.2740
Cl52.64181.72682.78204.29052.9055
Cl62.69241.71543.67283.27402.9055

picture of Trichloroethylene state 1 conformation 1
More geometry information
Calculated Bond Angles
atom1 atom2 atom3 angle atom1 atom2 atom3 angle
C1 C2 Cl5 119.983 C1 C2 Cl6 124.870
C2 C1 H3 120.578 C2 C1 Cl4 124.754
H3 C1 Cl4 114.668 Cl5 C2 Cl6 115.148
Electronic energy levels

Electronic state

Charges, Dipole, Quadrupole and Polarizability
Charges from optimized geometry at HF/6-31G** Charges (e)
Number Element Mulliken CHELPG AIM ESP
1 C -0.192 -0.052    
2 C -0.202 0.091    
3 H 0.218 0.160    
4 Cl 0.032 -0.080    
5 Cl 0.060 -0.077    
6 Cl 0.084 -0.042    


Electric dipole moments
Electric dipole components in Debye
(What's a Debye? See section VII.A.3)
  x y z Total
  -1.103 0.291 0.000 1.141
CHELPG        
AIM        
ESP        


Electric Quadrupole moment
Quadrupole components in D Å
Primitive
 xyz
x -46.628 -0.983 0.000
y -0.983 -50.724 0.000
z 0.000 0.000 -50.431
Traceless
 xyz
x 3.950 -0.983 0.000
y -0.983 -2.194 0.000
z 0.000 0.000 -1.755
Polar
3z2-r2-3.511
x2-y24.096
xy-0.983
xz0.000
yz0.000


Polarizabilities
Components of the polarizability tensor.
Units are Å3 (Angstrom cubed)
Change units.
  x y z
x 7.817 0.941 0.000
y 0.941 10.149 0.000
z 0.000 0.000 3.382


<r2> (average value of r2) Å2
<r2> 257.402
(<r2>)1/2 16.044