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All results from a given calculation for CCl3CHO (trichloroacetaldehyde)

using model chemistry: B3PW91/6-311G*

19 10 17 12 22

States and conformations

State Conformation minimum conformation conformer description state description
1 1 yes CS 1A'
Energy calculated at B3PW91/6-311G*
 hartrees
Energy at 0K-1532.490074
Energy at 298.15K-1532.491553
HF Energy-1532.490074
Nuclear repulsion energy431.680259
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 B3PW91/6-311G*
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' 2986 2875 38.47      
2 A' 1871 1802 177.36      
3 A' 1397 1345 12.74      
4 A' 1030 991 40.56      
5 A' 846 815 107.73      
6 A' 629 606 82.42      
7 A' 443 426 5.18      
8 A' 320 308 3.79      
9 A' 274 264 0.66      
10 A' 201 193 3.27      
11 A" 1017 980 27.61      
12 A" 718 691 161.80      
13 A" 327 315 5.15      
14 A" 253 243 0.87      
15 A" 87 84 6.01      

Unscaled Zero Point Vibrational Energy (zpe) 6200.0 cm-1
Scaled (by 0.9627) Zero Point Vibrational Energy (zpe) 5968.7 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 B3PW91/6-311G*
ABC
0.06120 0.05466 0.05065

See section I.F.4 to change rotational constant units
Geometric Data calculated at B3PW91/6-311G*

Point Group is Cs

Cartesians (Å)
Atom x (Å) y (Å) z (Å)
C1 0.037 0.043 0.000
C2 0.920 -1.229 0.000
O3 0.494 -2.338 0.000
Cl4 -1.675 -0.346 0.000
Cl5 0.494 0.961 1.464
Cl6 0.494 0.961 -1.464
H7 1.998 -0.979 0.000

Atom - Atom Distances (Å)
  C1 C2 O3 Cl4 Cl5 Cl6 H7
C11.54782.42391.75531.78761.78762.2111
C21.54781.18852.74112.66822.66821.1060
O32.42391.18852.94483.60913.60912.0267
Cl41.75532.74112.94482.92462.92463.7268
Cl51.78762.66823.60912.92462.92832.8585
Cl61.78762.66823.60912.92462.92832.8585
H72.21111.10602.02673.72682.85852.8585

picture of trichloroacetaldehyde state 1 conformation 1
More geometry information
Calculated Bond Angles
atom1 atom2 atom3 angle atom1 atom2 atom3 angle
C1 C2 O3 124.180 C1 C2 H7 111.774
C2 C1 Cl4 112.013 C2 C1 Cl5 106.030
C2 C1 Cl6 106.030 O3 C2 H7 124.046
Cl4 C1 Cl5 111.268 Cl4 C1 Cl6 111.268
Cl5 C1 Cl6 109.980
Electronic energy levels
Charges, Dipole, Quadrupole and Polarizability
Charges from optimized geometry at B3PW91/6-311G* Charges (e)
Number Element Mulliken CHELPG AIM ESP
1 C -0.471      
2 C 0.196      
3 O -0.221      
4 Cl 0.109      
5 Cl 0.078      
6 Cl 0.078      
7 H 0.230      


Electric dipole moments
Electric dipole components in Debye
(What's a Debye? See section VII.A.3)
  x y z Total
  1.164 0.888 0.000 1.464
CHELPG        
AIM        
ESP        


Electric Quadrupole moment
Quadrupole components in D Å
Primitive
 xyz
x -51.837 -0.406 0.000
y -0.406 -60.319 0.000
z 0.000 0.000 -54.066
Traceless
 xyz
x 5.356 -0.406 0.000
y -0.406 -7.368 0.000
z 0.000 0.000 2.012
Polar
3z2-r24.024
x2-y28.482
xy-0.406
xz0.000
yz0.000


Polarizabilities
Components of the polarizability tensor.
Units are Å3 (Angstrom cubed)
Change units.
  x y z
x 8.270 0.974 0.000
y 0.974 8.096 0.000
z 0.000 0.000 8.125


<r2> (average value of r2) Å2
<r2> 261.673
(<r2>)1/2 16.176