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All results from a given calculation for CCl3CHO (trichloroacetaldehyde)

using model chemistry: PBEPBE/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 PBEPBE/6-311G*
 hartrees
Energy at 0K-1531.946734
Energy at 298.15K-1531.948040
HF Energy-1531.946734
Nuclear repulsion energy428.141308
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 PBEPBE/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' 2886 2856 44.68      
2 A' 1796 1777 165.85      
3 A' 1346 1332 10.35      
4 A' 978 967 42.74      
5 A' 795 787 109.30      
6 A' 601 595 92.18      
7 A' 421 417 7.28      
8 A' 309 305 3.77      
9 A' 263 260 0.37      
10 A' 192 190 2.98      
11 A" 969 959 25.78      
12 A" 661 654 176.65      
13 A" 315 312 6.33      
14 A" 243 241 0.36      
15 A" 84 83 4.79      

Unscaled Zero Point Vibrational Energy (zpe) 5929.8 cm-1
Scaled (by 0.9896) Zero Point Vibrational Energy (zpe) 5868.1 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 PBEPBE/6-311G*
ABC
0.06011 0.05383 0.04983

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

Point Group is Cs

Cartesians (Å)
Atom x (Å) y (Å) z (Å)
C1 0.034 0.042 0.000
C2 0.926 -1.235 0.000
O3 0.499 -2.356 0.000
Cl4 -1.689 -0.347 0.000
Cl5 0.499 0.967 1.478
Cl6 0.499 0.967 -1.478
H7 2.011 -0.976 0.000

Atom - Atom Distances (Å)
  C1 C2 O3 Cl4 Cl5 Cl6 H7
C11.55762.44261.76691.80461.80462.2233
C21.55761.19972.76212.68672.68671.1155
O32.44261.19972.97063.63733.63732.0476
Cl41.76692.76212.97062.94932.94933.7533
Cl51.80462.68673.63732.94932.95592.8718
Cl61.80462.68673.63732.94932.95592.8718
H72.22331.11552.04763.75332.87182.8718

picture of trichloroacetaldehyde state 1 conformation 1
More geometry information
Calculated Bond Angles
atom1 atom2 atom3 angle atom1 atom2 atom3 angle
C1 C2 O3 124.202 C1 C2 H7 111.479
C2 C1 Cl4 112.218 C2 C1 Cl5 105.852
C2 C1 Cl6 105.852 O3 C2 H7 124.319
Cl4 C1 Cl5 111.336 Cl4 C1 Cl6 111.336
Cl5 C1 Cl6 109.972
Electronic energy levels
Charges, Dipole, Quadrupole and Polarizability
Charges from optimized geometry at PBEPBE/6-311G* Charges (e)
Number Element Mulliken CHELPG AIM ESP
1 C -0.477      
2 C 0.164      
3 O -0.185      
4 Cl 0.113      
5 Cl 0.082      
6 Cl 0.082      
7 H 0.219      


Electric dipole moments
Electric dipole components in Debye
(What's a Debye? See section VII.A.3)
  x y z Total
  1.066 0.778 0.000 1.320
CHELPG        
AIM        
ESP        


Electric Quadrupole moment
Quadrupole components in D Å
Primitive
 xyz
x -52.238 -0.371 0.000
y -0.371 -60.163 0.000
z 0.000 0.000 -54.380
Traceless
 xyz
x 5.033 -0.371 0.000
y -0.371 -6.854 0.000
z 0.000 0.000 1.820
Polar
3z2-r23.641
x2-y27.925
xy-0.371
xz0.000
yz0.000


Polarizabilities
Components of the polarizability tensor.
Units are Å3 (Angstrom cubed)
Change units.
  x y z
x 8.751 0.961 0.000
y 0.961 8.614 0.000
z 0.000 0.000 8.575


<r2> (average value of r2) Å2
<r2> 265.534
(<r2>)1/2 16.295