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

using model chemistry: B3LYP/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 B3LYP/6-311G*
 hartrees
Energy at 0K-539.472726
Energy at 298.15K-539.478163
Nuclear repulsion energy101.992268
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 B3LYP/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' 3102 2998 43.54      
2 A' 3087 2983 3.10      
3 A' 3034 2931 20.43      
4 A' 1519 1468 3.71      
5 A' 1506 1455 1.17      
6 A' 1431 1383 7.13      
7 A' 1338 1293 44.39      
8 A' 1096 1059 1.25      
9 A' 985 951 22.11      
10 A' 649 627 34.79      
11 A' 330 319 3.07      
12 A" 3151 3044 24.94      
13 A" 3115 3010 7.86      
14 A" 1502 1452 9.46      
15 A" 1289 1246 1.55      
16 A" 1092 1055 0.25      
17 A" 797 770 4.51      
18 A" 266 257 0.05      

Unscaled Zero Point Vibrational Energy (zpe) 14644.5 cm-1
Scaled (by 0.9663) Zero Point Vibrational Energy (zpe) 14150.9 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 B3LYP/6-311G*
ABC
1.05143 0.17868 0.16201

See section I.F.4 to change rotational constant units
Geometric Data calculated at B3LYP/6-311G*

Point Group is Cs

Cartesians (Å)
Atom x (Å) y (Å) z (Å)
C1 1.508 0.683 0.000
C2 0.000 0.822 0.000
H3 1.967 1.678 0.000
H4 1.858 0.148 0.885
H5 1.858 0.148 -0.885
Cl6 -0.824 -0.805 0.000
H7 -0.365 1.339 0.886
H8 -0.365 1.339 -0.886

Atom - Atom Distances (Å)
  C1 C2 H3 H4 H5 Cl6 H7 H8
C11.51481.09561.09171.09172.76622.17402.1740
C21.51482.14472.16592.16591.82401.08881.0888
H31.09562.14471.77101.77103.73512.51752.5175
H41.09172.16591.77101.77022.98052.52223.0821
H51.09172.16591.77101.77022.98053.08212.5222
Cl62.76621.82403.73512.98052.98052.36482.3648
H72.17401.08882.51752.52223.08212.36481.7725
H82.17401.08882.51753.08212.52222.36481.7725

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 111.556 C1 C2 H7 112.188
C1 C2 H8 112.188 C2 C1 H3 109.437
C2 C1 H4 111.356 C2 C1 H5 111.356
H3 C1 H4 108.124 H3 C1 H5 108.124
H4 C1 H5 108.334 Cl6 C2 H7 105.772
Cl6 C2 H8 105.772 H7 C2 H8 108.967
Electronic energy levels

Electronic state

Charges, Dipole, Quadrupole and Polarizability
Charges from optimized geometry at B3LYP/6-311G* Charges (e)
Number Element Mulliken CHELPG AIM ESP
1 C -0.601     -0.115
2 C -0.468     0.006
3 H 0.215     0.046
4 H 0.230     0.059
5 H 0.230     0.059
6 Cl -0.115     -0.224
7 H 0.255     0.085
8 H 0.255     0.085


Electric dipole moments
Electric dipole components in Debye
(What's a Debye? See section VII.A.3)
  x y z Total
  1.256 1.993 0.000 2.356
CHELPG        
AIM        
ESP 1.241 2.058 0.000 2.403


Electric Quadrupole moment
Quadrupole components in D Å
Primitive
 xyz
x -27.504 -0.366 0.000
y -0.366 -26.213 0.000
z 0.000 0.000 -26.715
Traceless
 xyz
x -1.041 -0.366 0.000
y -0.366 0.897 0.000
z 0.000 0.000 0.143
Polar
3z2-r20.287
x2-y2-1.292
xy-0.366
xz0.000
yz0.000


Polarizabilities
Components of the polarizability tensor.
Units are Å3 (Angstrom cubed)
Change units.
  x y z
x 5.261 1.153 0.000
y 1.153 5.740 0.000
z 0.000 0.000 3.935


<r2> (average value of r2) Å2
<r2> 80.424
(<r2>)1/2 8.968