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

using model chemistry: B1B95/3-21G*

19 10 17 12 22

States and conformations

State Conformation minimum conformation conformer description state description
1 1 yes CS 1A'
Energy calculated at B1B95/3-21G*
 hartrees
Energy at 0K-536.894708
Energy at 298.15K-536.900161
Nuclear repulsion energy102.229007
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 B1B95/3-21G*
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' 3151 3009 16.81      
2 A' 3124 2983 7.28      
3 A' 3075 2936 10.41      
4 A' 1560 1490 5.98      
5 A' 1539 1469 5.46      
6 A' 1462 1396 12.11      
7 A' 1347 1286 28.35      
8 A' 1106 1057 5.51      
9 A' 993 948 20.48      
10 A' 654 625 28.84      
11 A' 338 322 3.13      
12 A" 3194 3049 12.18      
13 A" 3162 3019 2.61      
14 A" 1547 1477 11.61      
15 A" 1314 1255 0.92      
16 A" 1106 1056 0.19      
17 A" 815 778 7.36      
18 A" 260 249 0.08      

Unscaled Zero Point Vibrational Energy (zpe) 14872.7 cm-1
Scaled (by 0.9549) Zero Point Vibrational Energy (zpe) 14202.0 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 B1B95/3-21G*
ABC
1.03232 0.18122 0.16369

See section I.F.4 to change rotational constant units
Geometric Data calculated at B1B95/3-21G*

Point Group is Cs

Cartesians (Å)
Atom x (Å) y (Å) z (Å)
C1 1.512 0.654 0.000
C2 0.000 0.829 0.000
H3 1.994 1.637 0.000
H4 1.834 0.105 0.887
H5 1.834 0.105 -0.887
Cl6 -0.826 -0.791 0.000
H7 -0.349 1.351 0.890
H8 -0.349 1.351 -0.890

Atom - Atom Distances (Å)
  C1 C2 H3 H4 H5 Cl6 H7 H8
C11.52191.09511.09191.09192.74762.17742.1774
C21.52192.15172.16212.16211.81801.08961.0896
H31.09512.15171.77751.77753.72082.52292.5229
H41.09192.16211.77751.77462.94322.51353.0786
H51.09192.16211.77751.77462.94323.07862.5135
Cl62.74761.81803.72082.94322.94322.36802.3680
H72.17741.08962.52292.51353.07862.36801.7808
H82.17741.08962.52293.07862.51352.36801.7808

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 110.393 C1 C2 H7 111.917
C1 C2 H8 111.917 C2 C1 H3 109.533
C2 C1 H4 110.549 C2 C1 H5 110.549
H3 C1 H4 108.730 H3 C1 H5 108.730
H4 C1 H5 108.704 Cl6 C2 H7 106.352
Cl6 C2 H8 106.352 H7 C2 H8 109.616
Electronic energy levels
Charges, Dipole, Quadrupole and Polarizability
Charges from optimized geometry at B1B95/3-21G* Charges (e)
Number Element Mulliken CHELPG AIM ESP
1 C -0.613      
2 C -0.528      
3 H 0.221      
4 H 0.234      
5 H 0.234      
6 Cl -0.071      
7 H 0.262      
8 H 0.262      


Electric dipole moments
Electric dipole components in Debye
(What's a Debye? See section VII.A.3)
  x y z Total
  1.230 1.926 0.000 2.285
CHELPG        
AIM        
ESP        


Electric Quadrupole moment
Quadrupole components in D Å
Primitive
 xyz
x -26.653 -0.362 0.000
y -0.362 -25.527 0.000
z 0.000 0.000 -26.096
Traceless
 xyz
x -0.842 -0.362 0.000
y -0.362 0.847 0.000
z 0.000 0.000 -0.005
Polar
3z2-r2-0.011
x2-y2-1.126
xy-0.362
xz0.000
yz0.000


Polarizabilities
Components of the polarizability tensor.
Units are Å3 (Angstrom cubed)
Change units.
  x y z
x 4.586 0.979 0.000
y 0.979 5.037 0.000
z 0.000 0.000 3.589


<r2> (average value of r2) Å2
<r2> 79.371
(<r2>)1/2 8.909