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

using model chemistry: HF/3-21G*

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/3-21G*
 hartrees
Energy at 0K-251.539614
Energy at 298.15K 
HF Energy-251.539614
Nuclear repulsion energy131.278038
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/3-21G*
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 3864 3487 27.44 61.98 0.31 0.47
2 A 3323 2999 39.70 47.47 0.74 0.85
3 A 3304 2982 26.64 82.43 0.32 0.49
4 A 3267 2949 21.24 91.13 0.21 0.34
5 A 3215 2902 38.25 95.99 0.24 0.39
6 A 1687 1523 1.62 9.10 0.75 0.86
7 A 1678 1515 0.84 15.17 0.75 0.86
8 A 1563 1410 6.20 1.42 0.75 0.86
9 A 1546 1395 22.46 3.27 0.70 0.83
10 A 1507 1360 31.10 17.28 0.74 0.85
11 A 1377 1243 10.59 12.40 0.71 0.83
12 A 1338 1208 25.60 8.93 0.75 0.85
13 A 1221 1102 2.11 3.09 0.39 0.56
14 A 1157 1044 62.75 8.81 0.70 0.82
15 A 1117 1008 60.07 1.69 0.75 0.86
16 A 969 875 12.99 6.36 0.46 0.63
17 A 933 842 34.54 10.71 0.20 0.34
18 A 547 494 7.74 2.17 0.74 0.85
19 A 476 430 212.70 4.66 0.75 0.86
20 A 326 294 5.00 0.21 0.44 0.61
21 A 165 149 16.87 0.08 0.59 0.74

Unscaled Zero Point Vibrational Energy (zpe) 17289.5 cm-1
Scaled (by 0.9026) Zero Point Vibrational Energy (zpe) 15605.5 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/3-21G*
ABC
0.49581 0.19417 0.15682

See section I.F.4 to change rotational constant units
Geometric Data calculated at HF/3-21G*

Point Group is C1

Cartesians (Å)
Atom x (Å) y (Å) z (Å)
C1 0.686 0.613 0.281
C2 -0.719 0.590 -0.281
O3 1.397 -0.545 -0.188
F4 -1.300 -0.625 0.164
H5 1.222 1.479 -0.071
H6 0.641 0.637 1.363
H7 -1.318 1.414 0.072
H8 -0.696 0.573 -1.358
H9 0.868 -1.329 0.018

Atom - Atom Distances (Å)
  C1 C2 O3 F4 H5 H6 H7 H8 H9
C11.51331.43722.34281.07781.08352.16822.14361.9677
C21.51332.40331.41792.14592.13431.07791.07762.5079
O31.43722.40332.72132.03452.09163.35812.64550.9679
F42.34281.41792.72133.29292.60762.04092.02892.2842
H51.07782.14592.03453.29291.76102.54532.48112.8312
H61.08352.13432.09162.60761.76102.47163.03232.3933
H72.16821.07793.35812.04092.54532.47161.77153.5077
H82.14361.07762.64552.02892.48113.03231.77152.8203
H91.96772.50790.96792.28422.83122.39333.50772.8203

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 106.075 C1 C2 H7 112.512
C1 C2 H8 110.529 C1 O3 H9 108.206
C2 C1 O3 109.055 C2 C1 H5 110.701
C2 C1 H6 109.435 O3 C1 H5 107.124
O3 C1 H6 111.379
Electronic energy levels
Charges, Dipole, Quadrupole and Polarizability
Charges from optimized geometry at HF/3-21G* Charges (e)
Number Element Mulliken CHELPG AIM ESP
1 C -0.129      
2 C -0.035      
3 O -0.678      
4 F -0.413      
5 H 0.226      
6 H 0.209      
7 H 0.205      
8 H 0.226      
9 H 0.388      


Electric dipole moments
Electric dipole components in Debye
(What's a Debye? See section VII.A.3)
  x y z Total
  -0.893 1.959 0.249 2.167
CHELPG        
AIM        
ESP        


Electric Quadrupole moment
Quadrupole components in D Å
Primitive
 xyz
x -29.930 -0.942 1.892
y -0.942 -20.482 -0.425
z 1.892 -0.425 -23.150
Traceless
 xyz
x -8.114 -0.942 1.892
y -0.942 6.058 -0.425
z 1.892 -0.425 2.056
Polar
3z2-r24.112
x2-y2-9.448
xy-0.942
xz1.892
yz-0.425


Polarizabilities
Components of the polarizability tensor.
Units are Å3 (Angstrom cubed)
Change units.
  x y z
x 3.179 -0.023 -0.072
y -0.023 3.680 0.022
z -0.072 0.022 3.039


<r2> (average value of r2) Å2
<r2> 79.047
(<r2>)1/2 8.891