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All results from a given calculation for CCl3CHO (trichloroacetaldehyde)

using model chemistry: G3B3

19 10 17 12 22

States and conformations

State Conformation minimum conformation conformer description state description
1 1 yes CS 1A'
Energy calculated at G3B3
 hartrees
Energy at 0K-1532.096564
Energy at 298.15K-1532.088878
HF Energy-1532.586713
Nuclear repulsion energy428.543008
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/6-31G*
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' 3008 2888 32.88      
2 A' 1863 1789 147.94      
3 A' 1401 1346 11.84      
4 A' 1022 981 33.70      
5 A' 832 799 105.03      
6 A' 618 594 82.93      
7 A' 434 416 5.02      
8 A' 316 304 4.45      
9 A' 269 259 1.15      
10 A' 199 191 2.92      
11 A" 1013 972 24.08      
12 A" 700 672 159.61      
13 A" 323 310 3.98      
14 A" 245 235 1.12      
15 A" 80 77 6.02      

Unscaled Zero Point Vibrational Energy (zpe) 6161.3 cm-1
Scaled (by 0.9603) Zero Point Vibrational Energy (zpe) 5916.7 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 B3LYP/6-31G*
ABC
0.06037 0.05393 0.04985

See section I.F.4 to change rotational constant units
Geometric Data calculated at B3LYP/6-31G*

Point Group is Cs

Cartesians (Å)
Atom x (Å) y (Å) z (Å)
C1 0.041 0.040 0.000
C2 0.929 -1.235 0.000
O3 0.496 -2.351 0.000
Cl4 -1.685 -0.354 0.000
Cl5 0.496 0.970 1.476
Cl6 0.496 0.970 -1.476
H7 2.006 -0.985 0.000

Atom - Atom Distances (Å)
  C1 C2 O3 Cl4 Cl5 Cl6 H7
C11.55342.43371.77051.80291.80292.2162
C21.55341.19742.75842.68852.68851.1059
O32.43371.19742.95703.63423.63422.0368
Cl41.77052.75842.95702.94692.94693.7448
Cl51.80292.68853.63422.94692.95272.8782
Cl61.80292.68853.63422.94692.95272.8782
H72.21621.10592.03683.74482.87822.8782

picture of trichloroacetaldehyde state 1 conformation 1
More geometry information
Calculated Bond Angles
atom1 atom2 atom3 angle atom1 atom2 atom3 angle
C1 C2 O3 124.270 C1 C2 H7 111.484
C2 C1 Cl4 111.465 C2 C1 Cl5 106.114
C2 C1 Cl6 106.114 O3 C2 H7 124.246
Cl4 C1 Cl5 111.294 Cl4 C1 Cl6 111.294
Cl5 C1 Cl6 110.318
Electronic energy levels
Charges, Dipole, Quadrupole and Polarizability
Charges from optimized geometry at B3LYP/6-31G* Charges (e)
Number Element Mulliken CHELPG AIM ESP
1 C -0.349      
2 C 0.292      
3 O -0.316      
4 Cl 0.091      
5 Cl 0.055      
6 Cl 0.055      
7 H 0.172      


Electric dipole moments
Electric dipole components in Debye
(What's a Debye? See section VII.A.3)
  x y z Total
  1.170 0.847 0.000 1.444
CHELPG        
AIM        
ESP        


Electric Quadrupole moment
Quadrupole components in D Å


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


<r2> (average value of r2) Å2
<r2> 264.543
(<r2>)1/2 16.265