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All results from a given calculation for CH3CHOH (1-hydroxy-ethyl radical)

using model chemistry: LSDA/6-31G*

19 10 17 12 22

States and conformations

State Conformation minimum conformation conformer description state description
1 1 yes C1 2A
Energy calculated at LSDA/6-31G*
 hartrees
Energy at 0K-153.557937
Energy at 298.15K-153.562828
HF Energy-153.557937
Nuclear repulsion energy75.226232
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 LSDA/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 3694 3625 42.45      
2 A 3082 3024 25.54      
3 A 3065 3007 23.86      
4 A 2997 2941 14.83      
5 A 2881 2827 49.37      
6 A 1462 1435 15.23      
7 A 1443 1416 17.19      
8 A 1414 1387 8.16      
9 A 1351 1326 0.95      
10 A 1265 1241 163.89      
11 A 1223 1200 0.67      
12 A 1053 1033 28.14      
13 A 990 971 4.54      
14 A 932 915 10.10      
15 A 553 542 21.24      
16 A 401 394 29.29      
17 A 372 365 132.78      
18 A 179 176 2.48      

Unscaled Zero Point Vibrational Energy (zpe) 14177.1 cm-1
Scaled (by 0.9813) Zero Point Vibrational Energy (zpe) 13912.0 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 LSDA/6-31G*
ABC
1.53980 0.32037 0.28067

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

Point Group is C1

Cartesians (Å)
Atom x (Å) y (Å) z (Å)
C1 -0.091 0.501 -0.095
C2 1.213 -0.159 0.009
O3 -1.156 -0.341 0.024
H4 -0.231 1.538 0.245
H5 1.279 -1.014 -0.691
H6 2.024 0.546 -0.233
H7 1.423 -0.572 1.024
H8 -1.978 0.183 -0.029

Atom - Atom Distances (Å)
  C1 C2 O3 H4 H5 H6 H7 H8
C11.46531.36241.10012.12762.12072.16641.9142
C21.46532.37582.24031.10671.10241.11533.2093
O31.36242.37582.10572.62533.31182.77530.9765
H41.10012.24032.10573.10892.50952.79092.2274
H52.12761.10672.62533.10891.78871.77693.5326
H62.12071.10243.31182.50951.78871.78674.0239
H72.16641.11532.77532.79091.77691.78673.6391
H81.91423.20930.97652.22743.53264.02393.6391

picture of 1-hydroxy-ethyl radical state 1 conformation 1
More geometry information
Calculated Bond Angles
atom1 atom2 atom3 angle atom1 atom2 atom3 angle
C1 C2 H5 110.859 C1 C2 H6 110.572
C1 C2 H7 113.485 C1 O3 H8 108.735
C2 C1 O3 114.272 C2 C1 H4 121.029
O3 C1 H4 117.147 H5 C2 H6 108.132
H5 C2 H7 106.194 H6 C2 H7 107.343
Electronic energy levels
Charges, Dipole, Quadrupole and Polarizability
Charges from optimized geometry at LSDA/6-31G* Charges (e)
Number Element Mulliken CHELPG AIM ESP
1 C -0.011      
2 C -0.572      
3 O -0.521      
4 H 0.134      
5 H 0.191      
6 H 0.182      
7 H 0.177      
8 H 0.420      


Electric dipole moments
Electric dipole components in Debye
(What's a Debye? See section VII.A.3)
  x y z Total
  -0.785 1.116 0.244 1.387
CHELPG        
AIM        
ESP        


Electric Quadrupole moment
Quadrupole components in D Å
Primitive
 xyz
x -14.581 -1.946 -0.004
y -1.946 -19.205 0.537
z -0.004 0.537 -20.230
Traceless
 xyz
x 5.137 -1.946 -0.004
y -1.946 -1.800 0.537
z -0.004 0.537 -3.337
Polar
3z2-r2-6.673
x2-y24.624
xy-1.946
xz-0.004
yz0.537


Polarizabilities
Components of the polarizability tensor.
Units are Å3 (Angstrom cubed)
Change units.
  x y z
x 4.889 -0.196 0.094
y -0.196 3.927 0.030
z 0.094 0.030 2.874


<r2> (average value of r2) Å2
<r2> 50.872
(<r2>)1/2 7.132