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All results from a given calculation for CCl3CHO (trichloroacetaldehyde)

using model chemistry: B3PW91/6-31G*

19 10 17 12 22

States and conformations

State Conformation minimum conformation conformer description state description
1 1 yes CS 1A'
Energy calculated at B3PW91/6-31G*
 hartrees
Energy at 0K-1532.370765
Energy at 298.15K-1532.372204
HF Energy-1532.370765
Nuclear repulsion energy431.046518
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 B3PW91/6-31G*
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' 3014 2884 32.98      
2 A' 1879 1797 150.89      
3 A' 1398 1337 11.22      
4 A' 1038 993 34.40      
5 A' 851 814 109.29      
6 A' 631 603 77.89      
7 A' 444 425 4.46      
8 A' 320 306 4.65      
9 A' 272 260 1.23      
10 A' 200 191 3.18      
11 A" 1015 971 26.86      
12 A" 726 694 157.24      
13 A" 324 310 3.55      
14 A" 248 238 1.37      
15 A" 81 78 5.87      

Unscaled Zero Point Vibrational Energy (zpe) 6219.6 cm-1
Scaled (by 0.9567) Zero Point Vibrational Energy (zpe) 5950.3 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 B3PW91/6-31G*
ABC
0.06113 0.05452 0.05045

See section I.F.4 to change rotational constant units
Geometric Data calculated at B3PW91/6-31G*

Point Group is Cs

Cartesians (Å)
Atom x (Å) y (Å) z (Å)
C1 0.039 0.044 0.000
C2 0.925 -1.227 0.000
O3 0.492 -2.342 0.000
Cl4 -1.674 -0.351 0.000
Cl5 0.492 0.964 1.466
Cl6 0.492 0.964 -1.466
H7 2.003 -0.977 0.000

Atom - Atom Distances (Å)
  C1 C2 O3 Cl4 Cl5 Cl6 H7
C11.54962.42921.75811.78931.78932.2131
C21.54961.19592.74292.67192.67191.1066
O32.42921.19592.94313.61703.61702.0362
Cl41.75812.74292.94312.92792.92793.7297
Cl51.78932.67193.61702.92792.93242.8630
Cl61.78932.67193.61702.92792.93242.8630
H72.21311.10662.03623.72972.86302.8630

picture of trichloroacetaldehyde state 1 conformation 1
More geometry information
Calculated Bond Angles
atom1 atom2 atom3 angle atom1 atom2 atom3 angle
C1 C2 O3 123.942 C1 C2 H7 111.766
C2 C1 Cl4 111.889 C2 C1 Cl5 106.080
C2 C1 Cl6 106.080 O3 C2 H7 124.292
Cl4 C1 Cl5 111.248 Cl4 C1 Cl6 111.248
Cl5 C1 Cl6 110.051
Electronic energy levels
Charges, Dipole, Quadrupole and Polarizability
Charges from optimized geometry at B3PW91/6-31G* Charges (e)
Number Element Mulliken CHELPG AIM ESP
1 C -0.418      
2 C 0.281      
3 O -0.318      
4 Cl 0.111      
5 Cl 0.075      
6 Cl 0.075      
7 H 0.195      


Electric dipole moments
Electric dipole components in Debye
(What's a Debye? See section VII.A.3)
  x y z Total
  1.176 0.879 0.000 1.468
CHELPG        
AIM        
ESP        


Electric Quadrupole moment
Quadrupole components in D Å
Primitive
 xyz
x -51.076 -0.497 0.000
y -0.497 -59.296 0.000
z 0.000 0.000 -53.288
Traceless
 xyz
x 5.216 -0.497 0.000
y -0.497 -7.114 0.000
z 0.000 0.000 1.898
Polar
3z2-r23.795
x2-y28.220
xy-0.497
xz0.000
yz0.000


Polarizabilities
Components of the polarizability tensor.
Units are Å3 (Angstrom cubed)
Change units.
  x y z
x 7.945 0.883 0.000
y 0.883 7.893 0.000
z 0.000 0.000 7.727


<r2> (average value of r2) Å2
<r2> 261.743
(<r2>)1/2 16.178