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All results from a given calculation for CCl3CHO (trichloroacetaldehyde)

using model chemistry: BLYP/6-31G*

19 10 17 12 22

States and conformations

State Conformation minimum conformation conformer description state description
1 1 yes CS 1A'
Energy calculated at BLYP/6-31G*
 hartrees
Energy at 0K-1532.500995
Energy at 298.15K-1532.502154
HF Energy-1532.500995
Nuclear repulsion energy423.015283
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 BLYP/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' 2904 2880 40.08      
2 A' 1774 1760 139.84      
3 A' 1358 1347 10.36      
4 A' 960 952 36.71      
5 A' 770 764 103.03      
6 A' 580 576 98.98      
7 A' 403 400 8.00      
8 A' 301 299 4.29      
9 A' 255 253 0.63      
10 A' 189 187 2.65      
11 A" 964 956 21.51      
12 A" 625 620 176.76      
13 A" 307 305 5.79      
14 A" 233 231 0.43      
15 A" 77 77 5.03      

Unscaled Zero Point Vibrational Energy (zpe) 5850.0 cm-1
Scaled (by 0.9919) Zero Point Vibrational Energy (zpe) 5802.6 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 BLYP/6-31G*
ABC
0.05865 0.05263 0.04857

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

Point Group is Cs

Cartesians (Å)
Atom x (Å) y (Å) z (Å)
C1 0.038 0.049 0.000
C2 0.931 -1.246 0.000
O3 0.503 -2.372 0.000
Cl4 -1.704 -0.355 0.000
Cl5 0.503 0.976 1.494
Cl6 0.503 0.976 -1.494
H7 2.017 -0.988 0.000

Atom - Atom Distances (Å)
  C1 C2 O3 Cl4 Cl5 Cl6 H7
C11.57302.46601.78871.81871.81872.2336
C21.57301.20522.78152.71142.71141.1158
O32.46601.20522.99033.66673.66672.0513
Cl41.78872.78152.99032.97952.97953.7740
Cl51.81872.71143.66672.97952.98842.8945
Cl61.81872.71143.66672.97952.98842.8945
H72.23361.11582.05133.77402.89452.8945

picture of trichloroacetaldehyde state 1 conformation 1
More geometry information
Calculated Bond Angles
atom1 atom2 atom3 angle atom1 atom2 atom3 angle
C1 C2 O3 124.630 C1 C2 H7 111.206
C2 C1 Cl4 111.511 C2 C1 Cl5 105.922
C2 C1 Cl6 105.922 O3 C2 H7 124.164
Cl4 C1 Cl5 111.367 Cl4 C1 Cl6 111.367
Cl5 C1 Cl6 110.487
Electronic energy levels
Charges, Dipole, Quadrupole and Polarizability
Charges from optimized geometry at BLYP/6-31G* Charges (e)
Number Element Mulliken CHELPG AIM ESP
1 C -0.315      
2 C 0.279      
3 O -0.292      
4 Cl 0.084      
5 Cl 0.045      
6 Cl 0.045      
7 H 0.154      


Electric dipole moments
Electric dipole components in Debye
(What's a Debye? See section VII.A.3)
  x y z Total
  1.083 0.717 0.000 1.299
CHELPG        
AIM        
ESP        


Electric Quadrupole moment
Quadrupole components in D Å
Primitive
 xyz
x -51.425 -0.539 0.000
y -0.539 -59.141 0.000
z 0.000 0.000 -53.579
Traceless
 xyz
x 4.935 -0.539 0.000
y -0.539 -6.639 0.000
z 0.000 0.000 1.704
Polar
3z2-r23.408
x2-y27.716
xy-0.539
xz0.000
yz0.000


Polarizabilities
Components of the polarizability tensor.
Units are Å3 (Angstrom cubed)
Change units.
  x y z
x 8.451 0.885 0.000
y 0.885 8.475 0.000
z 0.000 0.000 8.265


<r2> (average value of r2) Å2
<r2> 270.620
(<r2>)1/2 16.451