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All results from a given calculation for CH3CH2Cl (Ethyl chloride)

using model chemistry: BLYP/STO-3G

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States and conformations

State Conformation minimum conformation conformer description state description
1 1 yes CS 1A'
Energy calculated at BLYP/STO-3G
 hartrees
Energy at 0K-533.352640
Energy at 298.15K-533.357843
Nuclear repulsion energy99.487389
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 BLYP/STO-3G
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' 3371 3119 0.48      
2 A' 3238 2996 1.89      
3 A' 3215 2975 0.11      
4 A' 1632 1510 2.71      
5 A' 1583 1465 0.50      
6 A' 1516 1403 0.91      
7 A' 1366 1264 31.23      
8 A' 1120 1036 5.35      
9 A' 1023 947 13.94      
10 A' 724 670 12.19      
11 A' 316 292 2.68      
12 A" 3394 3140 0.62      
13 A" 3354 3103 0.64      
14 A" 1619 1498 3.86      
15 A" 1317 1218 0.26      
16 A" 1103 1021 2.13      
17 A" 812 752 3.55      
18 A" 221 205 0.16      

Unscaled Zero Point Vibrational Energy (zpe) 15462.7 cm-1
Scaled (by 0.9252) Zero Point Vibrational Energy (zpe) 14306.1 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 BLYP/STO-3G
ABC
0.99691 0.16986 0.15389

See section I.F.4 to change rotational constant units
Geometric Data calculated at BLYP/STO-3G

Point Group is Cs

Cartesians (Å)
Atom x (Å) y (Å) z (Å)
C1 1.554 0.693 0.000
C2 0.000 0.847 0.000
H3 2.016 1.703 0.000
H4 1.893 0.146 0.902
H5 1.893 0.146 -0.902
Cl6 -0.847 -0.823 0.000
H7 -0.361 1.379 0.909
H8 -0.361 1.379 -0.909

Atom - Atom Distances (Å)
  C1 C2 H3 H4 H5 Cl6 H7 H8
C11.56191.11061.10791.10792.84042.22812.2281
C21.56192.19042.21112.21111.87261.11341.1134
H31.11062.19041.80361.80363.81872.56512.5651
H41.10792.21111.80361.80373.04402.56943.1433
H51.10792.21111.80361.80373.04403.14332.5694
Cl62.84041.87263.81873.04403.04402.43172.4317
H72.22811.11342.56512.56943.14332.43171.8175
H82.22811.11342.56513.14332.56942.43171.8175

picture of Ethyl chloride state 1 conformation 1
More geometry information
Calculated Bond Angles
atom1 atom2 atom3 angle atom1 atom2 atom3 angle
C1 C2 Cl6 111.272 C1 C2 H7 111.686
C1 C2 H8 111.686 C2 C1 H3 108.917
C2 C1 H4 110.676 C2 C1 H5 110.676
H3 C1 H4 108.773 H3 C1 H5 108.773
H4 C1 H5 108.980 Cl6 C2 H7 106.252
Cl6 C2 H8 106.252 H7 C2 H8 109.410
Electronic energy levels
Charges, Dipole, Quadrupole and Polarizability
Charges from optimized geometry at BLYP/STO-3G Charges (e)
Number Element Mulliken CHELPG AIM ESP
1 C -0.209      
2 C -0.093      
3 H 0.085      
4 H 0.089      
5 H 0.089      
6 Cl -0.166      
7 H 0.102      
8 H 0.102      


Electric dipole moments
Electric dipole components in Debye
(What's a Debye? See section VII.A.3)
  x y z Total
  1.253 1.974 0.000 2.339
CHELPG        
AIM        
ESP        


Electric Quadrupole moment
Quadrupole components in D Å
Primitive
 xyz
x -24.908 -0.582 0.000
y -0.582 -24.152 0.000
z 0.000 0.000 -24.270
Traceless
 xyz
x -0.697 -0.582 0.000
y -0.582 0.438 0.000
z 0.000 0.000 0.260
Polar
3z2-r20.519
x2-y2-0.756
xy-0.582
xz0.000
yz0.000


Polarizabilities
Components of the polarizability tensor.
Units are Å3 (Angstrom cubed)
Change units.
  x y z
x 2.364 0.813 0.000
y 0.813 2.955 0.000
z 0.000 0.000 1.681


<r2> (average value of r2) Å2
<r2> 82.198
(<r2>)1/2 9.066