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All results from a given calculation for CCl3CHO (trichloroacetaldehyde)

using model chemistry: wB97X-D/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 wB97X-D/6-31G*
 hartrees
Energy at 0K-1532.489241
Energy at 298.15K-1532.490725
HF Energy-1532.489241
Nuclear repulsion energy 
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 wB97X-D/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' 3034 2878 31.14      
2 A' 1906 1808 150.25      
3 A' 1415 1342 11.75      
4 A' 1052 998 34.38      
5 A' 880 835 103.68      
6 A' 640 607 73.81      
7 A' 453 429 3.40      
8 A' 326 309 4.75      
9 A' 277 263 1.41      
10 A' 204 194 3.11      
11 A" 1025 972 32.01      
12 A" 761 722 140.65      
13 A" 329 312 2.78      
14 A" 251 238 1.76      
15 A" 68 65 7.06      

Unscaled Zero Point Vibrational Energy (zpe) 6310.9 cm-1
Scaled (by 0.9485) Zero Point Vibrational Energy (zpe) 5985.9 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 wB97X-D/6-31G*
ABC
0.06141 0.05452 0.05048

See section I.F.4 to change rotational constant units
Geometric Data calculated at wB97X-D/6-31G*

Point Group is Cs

Cartesians (Å)
Atom x (Å) y (Å) z (Å)
C1 0.043 0.047 0.000
C2 0.926 -1.231 0.000
O3 0.490 -2.341 0.000
Cl4 -1.671 -0.357 0.000
Cl5 0.490 0.967 1.465
Cl6 0.490 0.967 -1.465
H7 2.005 -0.986 0.000

Atom - Atom Distances (Å)
  C1 C2 O3 Cl4 Cl5 Cl6 H7
C11.55402.42951.76051.78671.78672.2174
C21.55401.19212.74032.67772.67771.1065
O32.42951.19212.93353.61803.61802.0327
Cl41.76052.74032.93352.92732.92733.7292
Cl51.78672.67773.61802.92732.92932.8729
Cl61.78672.67773.61802.92732.92932.8729
H72.21741.10652.03273.72922.87292.8729

picture of trichloroacetaldehyde state 1 conformation 1
More geometry information
Calculated Bond Angles
atom1 atom2 atom3 angle atom1 atom2 atom3 angle
C1 C2 O3 123.898 C1 C2 H7 111.803
C2 C1 Cl4 111.379 C2 C1 Cl5 106.342
C2 C1 Cl6 106.342 O3 C2 H7 124.299
Cl4 C1 Cl5 111.220 Cl4 C1 Cl6 111.220
Cl5 C1 Cl6 110.119
Electronic energy levels
Charges, Dipole, Quadrupole and Polarizability
Charges from optimized geometry at wB97X-D/6-31G* Charges (e)
Number Element Mulliken CHELPG AIM ESP
1 C -0.385      
2 C 0.286      
3 O -0.324      
4 Cl 0.099      
5 Cl 0.064      
6 Cl 0.064      
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
  1.263 0.861 0.000 1.528
CHELPG        
AIM        
ESP        


Electric Quadrupole moment
Quadrupole components in D Å
Primitive
 xyz
x -51.082 -0.588 0.000
y -0.588 -59.502 0.000
z 0.000 0.000 -53.391
Traceless
 xyz
x 5.364 -0.588 0.000
y -0.588 -7.266 0.000
z 0.000 0.000 1.901
Polar
3z2-r23.803
x2-y28.420
xy-0.588
xz0.000
yz0.000


Polarizabilities
Components of the polarizability tensor.
Units are Å3 (Angstrom cubed)
Change units.
  x y z
x 7.796 0.900 0.000
y 0.900 7.692 0.000
z 0.000 0.000 7.546


<r2> (average value of r2) Å2
<r2> 261.460
(<r2>)1/2 16.170