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All results from a given calculation for CCl3CHO (trichloroacetaldehyde)

using model chemistry: HF/6-31G*

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States and conformations

State Conformation minimum conformation conformer description state description
1 1 yes CS 1A'
Energy calculated at HF/6-31G*
 hartrees
Energy at 0K-1529.581504
Energy at 298.15K-1529.583297
HF Energy-1529.581504
Nuclear repulsion energy434.541083
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 HF/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' 3248 2918 25.67      
2 A' 2061 1852 199.98      
3 A' 1528 1373 19.57      
4 A' 1161 1043 27.52      
5 A' 966 868 104.44      
6 A' 690 620 76.43      
7 A' 485 436 2.26      
8 A' 349 313 4.48      
9 A' 299 269 2.28      
10 A' 224 201 3.48      
11 A" 1146 1030 28.42      
12 A" 843 757 139.18      
13 A" 357 321 2.50      
14 A" 272 244 2.44      
15 A" 88 79 9.95      

Unscaled Zero Point Vibrational Energy (zpe) 6857.6 cm-1
Scaled (by 0.8985) Zero Point Vibrational Energy (zpe) 6161.5 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 HF/6-31G*
ABC
0.06217 0.05526 0.05131

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

Point Group is Cs

Cartesians (Å)
Atom x (Å) y (Å) z (Å)
C1 0.048 0.038 0.000
C2 0.921 -1.232 0.000
O3 0.487 -2.324 0.000
Cl4 -1.662 -0.344 0.000
Cl5 0.487 0.959 1.451
Cl6 0.487 0.959 -1.451
H7 1.985 -1.003 0.000

Atom - Atom Distances (Å)
  C1 C2 O3 Cl4 Cl5 Cl6 H7
C11.54132.40191.75121.77431.77432.1992
C21.54131.17442.73092.66402.66401.0889
O32.40191.17442.92153.58923.58921.9976
Cl41.75122.73092.92152.90162.90163.7057
Cl51.77432.66403.58922.90162.90262.8634
Cl61.77432.66403.58922.90162.90262.8634
H72.19921.08891.99763.70572.86342.8634

picture of trichloroacetaldehyde state 1 conformation 1
More geometry information
Calculated Bond Angles
atom1 atom2 atom3 angle atom1 atom2 atom3 angle
C1 C2 O3 123.805 C1 C2 H7 112.325
C2 C1 Cl4 111.925 C2 C1 Cl5 106.717
C2 C1 Cl6 106.717 O3 C2 H7 123.870
Cl4 C1 Cl5 110.778 Cl4 C1 Cl6 110.778
Cl5 C1 Cl6 109.764
Electronic energy levels
Charges, Dipole, Quadrupole and Polarizability
Charges from optimized geometry at HF/6-31G* Charges (e)
Number Element Mulliken CHELPG AIM ESP
1 C -0.391      
2 C 0.368      
3 O -0.401      
4 Cl 0.099      
5 Cl 0.058      
6 Cl 0.058      
7 H 0.210      


Electric dipole moments
Electric dipole components in Debye
(What's a Debye? See section VII.A.3)
  x y z Total
  1.440 1.056 0.000 1.786
CHELPG        
AIM        
ESP        


Electric Quadrupole moment
Quadrupole components in D Å
Primitive
 xyz
x -51.754 -0.695 0.000
y -0.695 -61.385 0.000
z 0.000 0.000 -54.293
Traceless
 xyz
x 6.085 -0.695 0.000
y -0.695 -8.362 0.000
z 0.000 0.000 2.277
Polar
3z2-r24.554
x2-y29.631
xy-0.695
xz0.000
yz0.000


Polarizabilities
Components of the polarizability tensor.
Units are Å3 (Angstrom cubed)
Change units.
  x y z
x 7.328 0.927 0.000
y 0.927 7.219 0.000
z 0.000 0.000 7.172


<r2> (average value of r2) Å2
<r2> 259.005
(<r2>)1/2 16.094